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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

Recorded 7 November 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

14 receipts: 3 support the claim, 2 contradict it, 9 add context. 3 figures on the record, 3 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Contextlive.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

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  2. 2Supports the claimlive.euronext.com ↗

    Demand for OCI’s (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) AI infrastructure remains strong, including for earlier-generation GPUs

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  3. 3Contradicts the claimlive.euronext.com ↗

    Microsoft had been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle in recent months after declining to renew the contract

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  4. 4Contextlive.euronext.com ↗

    noting that the Oracle hardware used an older generation of Nvidia chips

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  5. 5Contextlive.euronext.com ↗

    The financial terms were not disclosed.

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  6. 6Supports the claimcrypto.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

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  7. 7Contradicts the claimcrypto.news ↗

    without identifying the value of Microsoft’s departing contract or saying which customers had taken the capacity Microsoft was leaving

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  8. 8Contextcrypto.news ↗

    Microsoft committed more than $80 billion to renting capacity from cloud businesses, including CoreWeave, Nscale and Nebius

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  9. 9Contextfinance.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.

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  10. 10Contextfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    The full value of the arrangement could not be determined, Bloomberg reported.

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  11. 11Contextfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    which may have limited its suitability for Microsoft's evolving AI workloads. Microsoft declined to comment.

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  12. 12Contextfinance.yahoo.com ↗

    Oracle shares fell 4% Friday after Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing capacity

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  13. 13Contextoracle.com ↗

    Oracle booked more than $30 billion of additional AI cloud contracts in Q1 increasing its RPO to $664 billion.

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  14. 14Supports the claimoracle.com ↗

    Customer demand for AI Cloud Training and Inferencing Services continues to grow faster than supply.

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