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Oracle upscales layoffs, expected to increase restructuring costs by $700m
While chairman Larry Ellison ditches plans for stock sale
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Y Combinator-backed Impact Drones to offer missile-intercepting drone service for data centers and grid operators
Following several strikes on data centers in US-Israel and Iran conflict
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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New Mexico regulators reject natural gas pipeline for Oracle's 2.5GW Project Jupiter data center
Pipeline was expected to feed fuel cells on the site
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Oracle cut workforce by 21,000 employees in FY2026
Revealed in annual report
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Nscale pinches Oracle data center lead Sam Huckaby to head AI infrastructure build out
Huckaby will lead the neocloud's European and North America expansion
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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Oracle begins laying off thousands of workers to fuel AI data center spend
Layoffs began yesterday
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Oracle plans to again cut thousands of jobs to free up AI data center cash flow
To feed OpenAI buildout, company will slash staff
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ByteDance signs deal to put TikTok US in control of Oracle-led consortium and avoid ban
Is the saga finally over?
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Microsoft's Richard Hage joins Oracle as VP of data center design
Was the director of global strategy, data center engineering
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Oracle appoints Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs
Safra Catz becomes executive vice chair of the board
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Oracle continues widespread layoffs across US, India, Philippines, and beyond
The company has yet to communicate the move internally or externally
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Oracle lays off hundreds of staff across California
More than 300 job cuts confirmed in WARN notice
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Significant layoffs at Oracle, job cuts impact US and India OCI teams
Scale of the cuts not yet known
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Oracle hiring for Abilene, Texas, Stargate data center roles
Join the first Oracle-OpenAI mega data center
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Oracle lays off several hundred OCI staff - report
New round of layoffs kicked off at start of November
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Matt Souders named VP of data center infrastructure at Oracle
Joins from Vantage Data Centers
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Oracle develops its own machine learning system to pinpoint data center outages
Hopes the solution will help cut server downtime
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Panasonic Group saves 180 tons of CO2 by upgrading data center
Company also completes first phase of cloud migration of internal systems to Oracle
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Birmingham Council's Oracle Cloud system fiasco due to series of project management failures
Investigation finds failings over a number of years that bankrupted council
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Matt Renner takes charge of Google Cloud's global sales operation
He succeeds Equinix-bound Adaire Fox-Martin
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Oracle looks to form infrastructure team for cloud footprint hardware lifecycles
At least 30 positions in new hardware lifecycle management team
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Oracle Cloud, NetSuite, and Azure face outages in Sydney, Australia
Likely caused by an issue at a shared data center
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Google accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud practices in FTC letter
Search company also digs at Oracle, Oracle attacks AWS, Microsoft and Amazon take the high ground
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Oracle trialing Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog in data center
Another robot in a data center