The $300B Bet: How Oracle Became AI’s Dark-Horse Supercloud
Oracle signed a five-year, $300 billion cloud contract with OpenAI, set to begin in 2027 and supply up to 5 gigawatts of compute power. The deal pushed Oracle’s cloud backlog to $455 billion and briefly made Larry Ellison the world’s richest person. OpenAI raised $40 billion to help fund the commitment, despite annual revenue of $10 billion and ongoing losses. Oracle’s stock surged, then dropped 7% on concerns about reliance on a single client.