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title: "Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)"
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published_at: "2026-11-06T18:05:03.000Z"
category: "Infra"
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summary: "Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle. This action followed Microsoft declining to renew a 2023 deal because the hardware used older Nvidia chips."
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# Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips \(Brody Ford/Bloomberg\)

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**Published:** 2026-11-06T18:05:03.000Z
**Category:** Infra
**Topics:** microsoft, llm

## Summary

Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle\. This action followed Microsoft declining to renew a 2023 deal because the hardware used older Nvidia chips\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.techmeme.com/261106/p18>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/edzitron/status/2118759939443442105>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/financialjuice/status/2118760114131710144>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2118761153866482032>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/negligible_cap/status/2118760378049982701>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/RealNickMugalli/status/2118760520547438804>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/LJKawa/status/2118761991045349585>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/microsoft-scales-back-rented-ai-cloud-computing-capacity-from-oracle-9b1ec0eb>)

