Oracle Bets on Cloud Growth, AWS Deal, and AI Datacenter Expansion

Oracle announced robust fiscal 2025 Q1 results, with total revenues reaching $13.3 billion, a 7% increase year-over-year in USD and 8% in constant currency. The company’s cloud services revenues surged 21% in USD and 22% in constant currency to $5.6 billion, driven by substantial gains in both cloud infrastructure and applications.

Oracle’s CEO, Safra Catz, said the company’s expanding cloud services as a key driver of growth. “As Cloud Services became Oracle’s largest business, both our operating income and earnings per share growth accelerated,” said Catz.

Additionally, Oracle recently partnered with AWS, following its partnerships with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

“But the biggest news of all was signing a MultiCloud agreement with AWS—including our latest technology Exadata hardware and Version 23ai of our database software—embedded into AWS cloud datacenters. AWS customers will get easy and convenient access to the Oracle database when we go live in December later this year,” said Catz. 

“Oracle has 162 cloud datacenters in operation and under construction around the world,” said Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. “The largest of these datacenters is 800 megawatts and will contain acres of NVIDIA GPU Clusters for training large scale AI models. 

Moreover, Oracle is also designing a data center that will use over a gigawatt of power, powered by three modular nuclear reactors, according to Ellison.

He also revealed that Oracle could operate up to 2,000 data centers in the future, a significant increase from the 162 currently in operation. However, not all these data centers will require large amounts of power. “The smallest are about 150 kilowatts,” Ellison said, “and we plan to reduce that down to 50 kilowatts.”