Oracle's Cloud Business Is Growing 4x Faster Than Oracle
Oracle's Q1 FY2027 cloud infrastructure revenue rose 121% year-over-year to $7.4B — nearly 4x the company's overall 30% growth — while its contracted backlog swelled to $664B and GPU utilization held at 97.9% despite nearly tripling deliveries quarter over quarter.
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- primaryhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-announces-q1-results-driven-by-triple-digit-growth-in-cloud-infrastructure-revenues-302875728.html
- alsohttps://www.investing.com/news/company-news/oracle-q1-fy2027-slides-cloud-infrastructure-surges-121-guides-90b-93CH-4897025
- alsohttps://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-delivered-300000-gpus-in-q1-fy2027/
- alsohttps://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/09/11/oracle-orcl-q1-2027-earnings-call-transcript/
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