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Oracle answered with a 20% renewal premium from a different batch of capacity, and nobody has said who takes Microsoft's share.

“Demand for Oracle's AI cloud remains strong, including for older GPUs, as Microsoft winds down its deal to rent Oracle capacity.”

Oracle spokesperson, responding to a Bloomberg News report carried by Reuters, 6 November 2026

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Bloomberg, via Reuters, says Microsoft declined to renew and has been switching capacity off.

20%Premium Oracle says it got on GPU capacity renewed or resold in its first fiscal quarter
664 billionUS dollars in Oracle remaining performance obligations at Q1 FY27
80 billionUS dollars Bloomberg says Microsoft committed to renting capacity from other cloud providers

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Say this in tomorrow's meeting“Oracle's 20% premium is about an earlier quarter's renewals. On the Microsoft capacity itself, Oracle hasn't said who takes it or what the deal was worth.”

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  1. Context live.euronext.com: Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle as part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships
  2. Supports live.euronext.com: Demand for OCI’s (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) AI infrastructure remains strong, including for earlier-generation GPUs
  3. Refutes live.euronext.com: Microsoft had been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle in recent months after declining to renew the contract
  4. Context live.euronext.com: noting that the Oracle hardware used an older generation of Nvidia chips
  5. Context live.euronext.com: The financial terms were not disclosed.
  6. Supports crypto.news: GPU capacity that came up for renewal in Q1 was renewed or resold at a 20% premium to prior pricing for long-term contracts
  7. Refutes crypto.news: without identifying the value of Microsoft’s departing contract or saying which customers had taken the capacity Microsoft was leaving
  8. Context crypto.news: Microsoft committed more than $80 billion to renting capacity from cloud businesses, including CoreWeave, Nscale and Nebius
  9. Context finance.yahoo.com: The company said in September that it was renewing contracts for four-year-old GPUs at a 20% premium to their original deal prices.
  10. Context finance.yahoo.com: The full value of the arrangement could not be determined, Bloomberg reported.
  11. Context finance.yahoo.com: which may have limited its suitability for Microsoft's evolving AI workloads. Microsoft declined to comment.
  12. Context finance.yahoo.com: Oracle shares fell 4% Friday after Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing capacity
  13. Context oracle.com: Oracle booked more than $30 billion of additional AI cloud contracts in Q1 increasing its RPO to $664 billion.
  14. Supports oracle.com: Customer demand for AI Cloud Training and Inferencing Services continues to grow faster than supply.

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