1425 ET - Oracle's explosive cloud infrastructure backlog growth is blowing analysts away and sending its stock to a record high, though co-founder Larry Ellison hinted last year that Oracle aimed to dominate the market for AI compute, Zacks Investment Research's Kevin Cook says in a note. At a conference last year, Ellison said Oracle had 162 data centers but would "like to have 1,000 to 2,000 more." Cook says that stuck with him. Now, the company is beefing up its capital expenditures to meet the surging demand for AI compute and expects to reach $144 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue four years from now, up from $18 billion this year, Cook says. "That is an incredible sustained CAGR for a cloud service provider," he says. (dean.seal@wsj.com)
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