Oracle Bets Big: $3B Pump Into Germany & Netherlands Over Next 5 Years

Tech giant Oracle just dropped a €2.8B grenade on Europe's cloud battleground.

The move? A five-year, $3 billion infrastructure blitz across Germany and the Netherlands—because apparently Larry Ellison thinks Frankfurt's data centers need more gold plating.

Why this matters:

- Europe's cloud wars just got hotter than a GPU running ETH mining circa 2021

- Oracle's playing catch-up with AWS and Azure while pretending it invented the game

- Local regulators are already salivating over potential 'tax optimization' opportunities

The kicker? This 'investment' represents about 3% of Oracle's cash reserves—roughly what they make in 47 days of licensing audits. But hey, when legacy tech needs blockchain-era credibility, nothing buys buzz like throwing billions at the problem.

Oracle aims to capitalize on the growing demand for cloud computing

Since the AI boom, there has been increased demand for the cloud and AI services offered by firms like Oracle, as they have the ability to replace or, in some cases, outperform software modeled by traditional IT firms.

Its shares, which have already risen nearly 38% so far this year, have responded positively to the news, surging 2% in trading before the bell.

The company expects its capital spending to surpass $25  billion in fiscal 2026, and the bulk of the expenditure will be committed to data center infrastructure, including for AI.

“As we bring more capacity online, our revenue and profit growth will further accelerate,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz stated in June.

A regulatory filing from the same month also revealed that Oracle landed a deal with an undisclosed client that is reportedly expected to produce over $30 billion in annual revenue for the company starting in fiscal year 2028.

Oracle’s investment aligns with a broader trend among tech giants

Big tech companies are expected to spend up to $320 billion on AI this year. Oracle is one of the latest companies to join the campaign in response to the growing desire of businesses to deploy AI workloads.

Last year, Amazon announced plans to invest 10 billion euros in Germany, raising its total potential investments in the European country to 17.8 billion euros.

On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers. The famous tech mogul has been going above and beyond with respect to hiring for its artificial intelligence (AI) unit, even making headlines for allegedly poaching talent from its rival ChatGPT Maker OpenAI by tempting them with $100 million pay packages.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tagged the aggressive recruitment tactic as “distasteful” and potentially harmful to corporate culture.

Zuckerberg also reportedly set his sights on Apple Inc.’s staff, with Bloomberg citing sources that claimed Meta offered a hefty pay package exceeding $200 million to lure distinguished Apple Inc. engineer Ruoming Pang for its superintelligence team.

Apple reportedly failed to match Meta’s offer, claiming it WOULD “far exceed” the pay packages of several management members, including CEO Tim Cook.

So far, Meta has been able to onboard at least 10 former OpenAI researchers, including leading OpenAI scientist Lucas Beyer, who co-created the vision transformer. It has also poached recognizable names from Google, Anthropic, and other startups.

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