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Microsoft drops $3B Oracle cloud pact; Google pays SpaceX $920M/month

6/17/2026

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Microsoft and Oracle ended talks on a cloud-capacity lease worth $3 billion because Oracle’s cloud lacks Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, which Oracle said would need an engineering lift although its government cloud meets standard.
Microsoft projected $190 billion 2026 capex to expand capacity and sought Amazon support after GitHub outages.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for AI compute from October 2026 through June 2029 under the Anthropic agreement.

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Microsoft and Oracle ended talks on a cloud-capacity lease worth $3 billion because Oracle’s cloud lacks Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, which Oracle said would need an engineering lift although its government cloud meets standard.
Microsoft projected $190 billion 2026 capex to expand capacity and sought Amazon support after GitHub outages.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for AI compute from October 2026 through June 2029 under the Anthropic agreement.