By maneesha-tiwari
Publication Date: 2026-02-02 23:03:00
Oracle said it plans to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion in calendar year 2026 through a combination of equity and debt financing to support the expansion of its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) business.
In a statement to investors, the company said the financing aims to fund infrastructure capacity needed to meet contracted cloud demand from large enterprise and technology customers, including AMD, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, TikTok and xAI, while maintaining an investment-grade balance sheet.
The plan approved by Oracle’s board comes as the company continues to scale OCI to support growing workloads across enterprise applications, data platforms and cloud services.
Expansion of the cloud platform and capital strategy
Oracle operates its ERP applications, databases and cloud infrastructure as an integrated system. OCI supports these offerings and serves as a hosting platform for customer deployments.
As demand for cloud-based enterprise systems has increased…
