Larry Ellison May Have Hijacked Every Power Lane in America—Here’s What It Means for Tech and Finance

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison isn't just playing in the cloud—he's rewriting the rulebook on American infrastructure.

Power Play: The Unseen Grid Grab

While Wall Street chases quarterly earnings, Ellison's quietly snapping up energy corridors coast to coast. No press releases, no shareholder votes—just strategic acquisitions that put him at the nexus of America's digital and physical economies.

Data Centers Meet Power Grids

These aren't random real estate deals. Every megawatt pathway acquired positions Oracle's cloud infrastructure further ahead of competitors. Control the energy, control the compute—and ultimately, the flow of digital assets.

Finance's Blind Spot

Traditional analysts missed it entirely—too busy downgrading crypto stocks while real power was being consolidated offline. Another reminder that legacy finance often looks through the wrong end of the telescope.

Ellison's move proves once again: the biggest disruptions happen where tech infrastructure meets real-world assets. And Wall Street's still playing catch-up.

Larry moves into media, Trump wants him to buy TikTok

Right after that Oracle earnings bombshell, The Wall Street Journal reported the Ellison family is now preparing a majority-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.

That WOULD combine Paramount Global, already taken over by Larry’s son David Ellison, with another entertainment giant, creating a new super-conglomerate controlling Paramount+, HBO Max, and two of Hollywood’s biggest studios.

David is running Skydance Media, which merged with Paramount to FORM this new powerhouse. But it’s Larry who controls the entities that own it. The same week the Warner Bros. news leaked, it also came out that David is pursuing an acquisition of the Free Press, the digital news site founded by Bari Weiss.

Talks are underway to give Bari a leading editorial role at CBS News, which Skydance now owns under its new setup. David has also installed Trump ally Kenneth Weinstein as CBS News ombudsman, tightening his grip on the editorial direction.

Trump himself called David “a great man” after reaching a $16 million legal settlement with CBS over a “60 Minutes” episode. While Larry was once a supporter of Bill Clinton, he now sits comfortably in Trump’s orbit. In 2020, he even hosted a fundraiser for Trump at his estate, but didn’t show up personally.

The TikTok angle is just as loud. Larry’s been circling TikTok since 2020, when Trump tried to force its Chinese parent ByteDance to sell off U.S. operations. Biden signed a TikTok ban in 2024, but Trump returned to office and paused enforcement while trade talks with China continued.

At the WHITE House event in January, Trump was asked about Elon buying TikTok. He said, “I’d be fine with that… I’d like Larry to buy it, too.”

Larry stays in control at Oracle and builds his personal empire

Even after handing over the CEO title, Larry’s still running things. People inside Oracle say he leads weekly development meetings and keeps a tight partnership with CEO Safra Catz.

In 2024, it bought health-data company Cerner for $28.3 billion, and Larry used that to explain his long-term strategy. “Healthcare was the only big problem Elon left us,” he said at the Oracle Health Summit.

Larry doesn’t hide his admiration for Elon Musk, often calling him an influence. When Elon needed investors for the $44 billion Twitter buyout, Larry texted him offering “a billion… or whatever you recommend.”

His Ellison Institute of Technology is directly inspired by Elon’s company network. The institute is working with Oxford University researchers using Oracle tech to find profitable solutions for climate change, food security, and more.

Larry’s obsession with control goes back decades, as Cryptopolitan detailed in an Op-ed by the same author. In 2000, during Microsoft’s antitrust scandal, he admitted to hiring investigators to dig into Microsoft’s ties to lobbyists and politicians. He called it his “civic duty.”

In the early 2000s, Larry got sued by shareholders after dumping $900 million in Oracle stock before earnings missed. He didn’t admit guilt but settled and donated $100 million to charity.

Larry started all this after dropping out of college twice, getting a job at Ampex, and working on a CIA database project named “Oracle.” He liked the name so much, he used it for his own startup in 1977. Oracle went public in 1986, and by the ’90s, he was a billionaire.

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