Why Oracle's debt load could be your problem
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Why Oracle's debt load could be your problem

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 20268 min
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  • Business & money

Oracle, the multinational tech giant has taken on a lot of loans to build up its AI capacity. But Oracle’s investors are not happy with this piling debt load. We explain why Oracle is such a pivotal player — and potentially weak link — in the AI-fueled economy. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. Your Next Listen –How the bond market is handling AI risk? –Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR App Connect with The Indicator from Planet Money –The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram...

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N.P.R. Oracle is not like the other children in the big tech company classroom. Sure, the software giant is investing in artificial intelligence, and the company's revenue is booming.

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But Oracle has urged the credit market by loading up on loans to make its data center dreams come true. See Oracle may be the weak link in a crisscrossing daisy chain of businesses that's holding up the AI boom.

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My biggest concern in all of this is the circular deals. Oracle's a part of circular deals with open AI, but they have one with meta. If you look in videos all over the place in these circular deals, Microsoft's and a few. This is The Indicator for Planet Money.

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