Oracle predicts investors poised to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone

Oracle has revealed it needs to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in cash to fund expansion of its cloud infrastructure, and its plan to raise that money

Big Red on Sunday issued an announcement that explains it is raising money “to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from our largest Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers, including AMD, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, TikTok, xAI and others.”

The announcement says Oracle “expects” to raise $45 to $50 billion of gross cash proceeds during the 2026 calendar year alone, using “a balanced combination of debt and equity financing.”

Oracle plans to get its hands on the billions it needs with three tactics.

One is issuing bonds, a move Big Red thinks will win it about half the cash it wants. Oracle also says these are the only bonds it will issue in 2026.

The company will also issue mandatory convertible preferred securities ...