cancelled

Microsoft winds down its Oracle AI cloud capacity rental

Bloomberg reported that Microsoft did not renew its 2023 deal to rent AI capacity on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Bing and has been switching the capacity off, because the older NVIDIA GPUs no longer meet its specifications. Oracle said demand for its AI infrastructure remains strong.

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What the value means

Value of the original 2023 deal (OCI capacity for Bing inference) was never disclosed. Date is the Bloomberg report; Microsoft declined to comment.

The record

Verified 9 Nov 2026
Announced
Buyer
Microsoft
Seller / provider
Oracle
ValueHeadline dollar value exactly as stated in the cited source.
Not disclosed
Capacity
Not disclosed
Accelerators
Not disclosed
Chips
Older-generation NVIDIA GPUs
Term
Not disclosed
StatusTerminated or rejected
cancelled
Other parties
None named
Deal type
cloud-capacity

Sources

2
  1. Microsoft winds down 2023 Oracle AI cloud deal (Tech Insider, citing Bloomberg) read 2026-11-09
  2. Microsoft Is Winding Down Oracle Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity (Bloomberg) read 2026-11-09

Cite this deal

AI Compute Deals, “Microsoft winds down its Oracle AI cloud capacity rental”, https://aicomputedeals.com/microsoft-oracle-bing-capacity-winddown-2026-11/ (verified 2026-11-09).

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