The trick: Headline Over Filing
Oracle reports $638 billion of AI backlog.
The banks that lent to build it spent six months or more placing a $38 billion slice, some at a discount.
Oracle says its RPO and revenue growth is driven by AI demand, with RPO at $638 billion.
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Receipts
- Supports oracle.com:
The large increases in Oracle's RPO and revenue are driven by the growing demand for cloud infrastructure for AI training and inferencing.
- Supports oracle.com:
Remaining Performance Obligations, or RPO, ended the quarter at $638 billion, up 363% USD year-over-year
- Context oracle.com:
Free cash flow was negative $23.7 billion for fiscal year 2026
- Context oracle.com:
In fiscal year 2026, Oracle raised $43 billion in debt financing and $5 billion in equity financing.
- Context oracle.com:
Oracle does not expect to issue additional debt in calendar year 2026.
- Refutes silicon.co.uk:
have reportedly spent more than six months distributing $38 billion
- Context silicon.co.uk:
distributing $38 billion (£28bn) of construction debt tied to a data centre project in Texas and Wisconsin leased to Oracle
- Refutes silicon.co.uk:
with some banks seeking to sell the loans at a discount to non-bank lenders
- Context silicon.co.uk:
Banks are reportedly approaching risk limits that restrict their exposure to individual borrowers or sectors
- Context silicon.co.uk:
out of scale to anything we’ve thought about, ever
- Context aiweekly.co:
after more than two dozen banks and investors joined
- Context aiweekly.co:
lenders are still looking to offload less than $1 billion
- Refutes aiweekly.co:
to non-bank buyers at a discount, just to move it
- Context aiweekly.co:
Oracle's corporate credit rating sits one notch above junk following a July S&P downgrade
- Context aiweekly.co:
Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo Mitsui and Societe Generale were allocated portions
- Refutes startupfortune.com:
JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG have been exploring significant risk transfers, according to a report from the Financial Times
- Context startupfortune.com:
because they are bumping up against internal limits on how much AI-linked exposure any one lender can hold
- Context startupfortune.com:
Order books for their offerings have shrunk from roughly five times the amount on sale back in February to under two times by July
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