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Six separate Korean threads run through LEAP 2026 and the year around it — a national mapping standard, an anchor tenancy, a physical AI launch, a cloud partner and two funds. Read together they are a position, not a series of deals.
A foreign digital twin platform adopted as a national local-government standard, asset-lifecycle products aimed at plants and parks, and a digital valley whose product is data-centre real estate.
The two figures differ by roughly seventy times. They are not in conflict — they describe two separate pools of capital that reach Saudi technology through different mechanisms.
The communications ministry itemised its own day-two tally. Of roughly $2.5bn, about $2.08bn was floor space and megawatts — and none of it was applications software.
More than $15bn announced at the fifth edition, against $44.2bn across the previous four. The headline figure is large; the fact that it is now published daily and itemised is the more durable development.