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Oracle’s AI Buildout Gets Fresh Tailwind With $1.65 Billion Datapod Deal and Bullish Analyst Support

A $553 billion backlog now anchors spending plans.

Overview

  • Oracle’s six-year, $1.65 billion supply deal with Australia’s Datapod, reported April 27, secures modular data centers to deploy and maintain AI infrastructure in the United States and Europe.
  • Wedbush’s Dan Ives reaffirmed an Outperform view with a $225 price target and called the recent share selloff an overreaction tied to OpenAI headlines, saying Oracle has funding to add compute capacity for at least three years.
  • The company cites $553 billion in Remaining Performance Obligations, or contracted future revenue, as the base for converting AI demand into cloud sales.
  • Financing for a flagship Michigan data center closed April 25 after Bank of America led $14 billion in project bonds within a $16 billion package, signaling strong appetite for AI infrastructure debt.
  • Execution and credit risks remain given about $125–135 billion of debt, a 2026 capital spending plan near $50 billion, and heavy exposure to OpenAI that Wedbush estimates at roughly $300 billion of the backlog.