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Q1-2026 Earnings Call

AI Summary
Earnings Call on Sep 9, 2025

Cloud & AI Boom: Oracle reported a surge in demand for its cloud and AI infrastructure, with major contracts signed with leading AI names like OpenAI, xAI, Meta, NVIDIA, and AMD.

Record RPO: Remaining performance obligations (RPO) hit $455 billion, up 359% YoY and $317 billion from Q4, signaling a massive backlog and strong future revenue.

Cloud Growth: Total cloud revenue jumped 27% to $7.2 billion, and cloud infrastructure revenue soared 54% to $3.3 billion.

Strong Financials: Total revenue rose 11% YoY to $14.9 billion, operating income increased 7% to $6.2 billion, and the company expects mid-teens operating income growth this year.

Upbeat Guidance: Oracle guided for FY 2026 total revenue growth of 16% in constant currency and expects cloud infrastructure revenue to grow 77% to $18 billion this year.

CapEx Acceleration: Fiscal 2026 CapEx is expected to be around $35 billion, focused on revenue-generating data center equipment to meet soaring demand.

AI Database & Inferencing: Management emphasized a unique AI database offering, enabling secure use of private enterprise data with multiple LLMs, which they see as a major differentiator in the growing AI inferencing market.

Positive Analyst Reception: Analysts expressed strong enthusiasm for Oracle's results and AI positioning, viewing the quarter as transformative for the company and industry.

AI & Cloud Demand

Oracle is experiencing unprecedented demand for its cloud infrastructure, with high-profile AI companies selecting Oracle to power large-scale training and inferencing workloads. Management emphasized that demand for both training and inferencing is outpacing supply, and that Oracle is uniquely positioned due to its ability to deliver high performance and cost efficiency at scale.

RPO & Revenue Backlog

Remaining performance obligations (RPO) reached $455 billion, a 359% year-over-year increase and $317 billion higher than last quarter. Cloud RPO grew nearly 500%. This massive backlog is expected to drive accelerating revenue and profit growth as Oracle brings new cloud capacity online.

AI Database & Enterprise Data

Oracle highlighted its new AI database capability, which allows customers to vectorize their private data and securely connect it with leading LLMs. Management argued this integration of private and public data for advanced AI reasoning is unique to Oracle, positioning them as a leader in the enterprise inferencing market.

Cloud Infrastructure Expansion

CapEx for fiscal 2026 is projected at around $35 billion, primarily for data center equipment rather than buildings or land. Oracle is rapidly deploying this equipment to support customers as soon as possible, often generating revenue almost immediately after hardware acceptance.

Application & AI Integration

Oracle claims a competitive edge by being both an infrastructure and an application company. They are using AI to automate application generation, leading to faster, more efficient development. New applications are described as collections of AI agents, blurring the line between AI and software products.

Profitability & Cost Structure

Management stated that Oracle's cloud is asset-light, focusing spending on equipment rather than property, and achieves high profitability through technological advantages and operational efficiency. The company expects operating income to grow at a mid-teens rate in FY 2026 and higher in FY 2027.

AI Differentiation & Competitive Moat

Oracle is confident in its differentiation, citing its fast networks and GPU super clusters as core advantages in the AI training market. In inferencing, its vast data custody and secure, vectorized database offering are seen as creating a strong moat against commoditization.

Guidance & Long-term Outlook

Oracle reaffirmed its FY 2026 total revenue growth target of 16% in constant currency. The company raised its cloud infrastructure growth expectations and expects RPO to exceed $0.5 trillion. Management is confident that revenue and profit growth will accelerate further in coming years, with more details promised at their October analyst meeting.

Remaining Performance Obligations
$455 billion
Change: Up 359% YoY, up $317 billion from Q4.
Guidance: RPO likely to grow to exceed $0.5 trillion.
Total Cloud Revenue
$7.2 billion
Change: Up 27%.
Guidance: Expected Q2 cloud revenue growth of 32–36% in constant currency; 33–37% in USD.
Cloud Infrastructure Revenue
$3.3 billion
Change: Up 54%.
Guidance: Expected to grow 77% to $18 billion this fiscal year; $32B, $73B, $114B, $144B in the following 4 years.
Cloud Database Services Annualized Revenue
$2.8 billion
Change: Up 32%.
Cloud Application Revenue
$3.8 billion
Change: Up 10%.
Strategic Back-office Application Revenue
$2.4 billion
Change: Up 16%.
Total Software Revenue
$5.7 billion
Change: Down 2%.
Total Revenue
$14.9 billion
Change: Up 11% YoY.
Guidance: FY26 total revenue growth of 16% in constant currency; Q2 total revenue expected to grow 12–14% in constant currency, 14–16% in USD.
Operating Income
$6.2 billion
Change: Up 7%.
Guidance: Expected to grow mid-teens in FY26 and higher in FY27.
EPS
$1.01
No Additional Information
Operating Cash Flow (last 4 quarters)
$21.5 billion
Change: Up 13%.
Free Cash Flow (last 4 quarters)
-$5.9 billion
No Additional Information
CapEx (last 4 quarters)
$27.4 billion
Guidance: FY26 CapEx expected to be around $35 billion.
Operating Cash Flow (Q1)
$8.1 billion
No Additional Information
Free Cash Flow (Q1)
-$362 million
No Additional Information
CapEx (Q1)
$8.5 billion
No Additional Information
Cash and Marketable Securities
$11 billion
No Additional Information
Short-term Deferred Revenue
$12 billion
Change: Up 5%.
Dividend (last 12 months)
$5 billion
No Additional Information
Quarterly Dividend Per Share
$0.50
No Additional Information
Share Repurchases (Q1)
440,000 shares for $95 million
No Additional Information
Remaining Performance Obligations
$455 billion
Change: Up 359% YoY, up $317 billion from Q4.
Guidance: RPO likely to grow to exceed $0.5 trillion.
Total Cloud Revenue
$7.2 billion
Change: Up 27%.
Guidance: Expected Q2 cloud revenue growth of 32–36% in constant currency; 33–37% in USD.
Cloud Infrastructure Revenue
$3.3 billion
Change: Up 54%.
Guidance: Expected to grow 77% to $18 billion this fiscal year; $32B, $73B, $114B, $144B in the following 4 years.
Cloud Database Services Annualized Revenue
$2.8 billion
Change: Up 32%.
Cloud Application Revenue
$3.8 billion
Change: Up 10%.
Strategic Back-office Application Revenue
$2.4 billion
Change: Up 16%.
Total Software Revenue
$5.7 billion
Change: Down 2%.
Total Revenue
$14.9 billion
Change: Up 11% YoY.
Guidance: FY26 total revenue growth of 16% in constant currency; Q2 total revenue expected to grow 12–14% in constant currency, 14–16% in USD.
Operating Income
$6.2 billion
Change: Up 7%.
Guidance: Expected to grow mid-teens in FY26 and higher in FY27.
EPS
$1.01
No Additional Information
Operating Cash Flow (last 4 quarters)
$21.5 billion
Change: Up 13%.
Free Cash Flow (last 4 quarters)
-$5.9 billion
No Additional Information
CapEx (last 4 quarters)
$27.4 billion
Guidance: FY26 CapEx expected to be around $35 billion.
Operating Cash Flow (Q1)
$8.1 billion
No Additional Information
Free Cash Flow (Q1)
-$362 million
No Additional Information
CapEx (Q1)
$8.5 billion
No Additional Information
Cash and Marketable Securities
$11 billion
No Additional Information
Short-term Deferred Revenue
$12 billion
Change: Up 5%.
Dividend (last 12 months)
$5 billion
No Additional Information
Quarterly Dividend Per Share
$0.50
No Additional Information
Share Repurchases (Q1)
440,000 shares for $95 million
No Additional Information

Earnings Call Transcript

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Operator

Hello, and thank you for standing by. My name is Tiffany, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Oracle Corporation Q1 FY 2026 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the call over to Ken Bond, Head of Investor Relations. Ken, please go ahead.

Ken Bond
executive

Thank you, Tiffany. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Oracle's First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Conference Call. A copy of the press release and financial tables, which include a GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation and other supplemental financial information can be viewed and downloaded from our Investor Relations website. Additionally, a list of many customers who purchased Oracle Cloud Services or went live on Oracle Cloud recently will be available from the Investor Relations website.

On the call today are Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison; and Chief Executive Officer, Safra Catz.

As a reminder, today's discussion will include forward-looking statements, including predictions, expectations, estimates or other information that might be considered forward-looking. Throughout today's discussion, we will present some important factors relating to our business, which may include -- which may potentially affect these forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from statements being made today. As a result, we caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and we encourage you to review our most recent reports, including our 10-K and 10-Q and any applicable amendments for a complete discussion of these factors and other risks that may affect our future results or the market price of our stock.

And finally, we are not obligating ourselves to revise our results or these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Before taking questions, we'll begin with a few prepared remarks.

And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Safra.

Safra Catz
executive

Thanks, Ken, and good afternoon, everyone. Clearly, we had an amazing start to the year because Oracle has become the go-to place for AI workloads. We have signed significant cloud contracts with the who's who of AI, including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, NVIDIA, AMD and many others. .

At the end of Q1, remaining performance obligations, or RPO, now top $455 billion. This is up 359% from last year and up $317 billion from the end of Q4. Our cloud RPO grew nearly 500% on top of 83% growth last year.

Now to the results using constant currency growth rate. As you can see, we've made some changes to the face of our income statement to better reflect how we manage the business and so you can understand our cloud business dynamics more directly. So here it goes.

Total cloud revenue, that's both apps and infrastructure, was up 27% to $7.2 billion. Cloud infrastructure revenue was $3.3 billion, up 54% on top of the 46% growth reported in Q1 last year. OCI consumption revenue was up 57%, and demand continues to dramatically outstrip supply. Cloud database services, which were up 32%, now have annualized revenues of nearly $2.8 billion. Autonomous Database revenue was up 43% on top of the 26% growth reported in Q1 last year. MultiCloud database revenue where OCI regions are embedded in AWS, Azure and GCP grew 1,529% in Q1. Cloud Application revenue was $3.8 billion and up 10%, while our strategic back-office application revenue was $2.4 billion, up 16%. Total software revenue for the quarter was $5.7 billion, down 2%.

So all in, total revenues for the quarter were $14.9 billion, up 11% from last year and higher than the 8% growth reported in Q1 last year.

Operating income grew 7% to $6.2 billion. We have also been on an accelerated journey to adopt AI internally to run more efficiently. I expect our operating income will grow mid-teens this year and higher still in FY '27.

Non-GAAP EPS was $1.47 in U.S. dollars, while GAAP EPS was $1.01 in U.S. dollars. The non-GAAP tax rate for the quarter was 20.5%, which was higher than the 19% guidance and caused EPS to be $0.03 lower.

For the last 4 quarters, operating cash flow was up 13% to $21.5 billion, and free cash flow was a negative $5.9 billion with 25.9% with $27.4 billion of CapEx. Operating cash flow for Q1 was $8.1 billion, while free cash flow was a negative $362 million with CapEx of $8.5 billion. At quarter end, we had $11 billion in cash and marketable securities and short-term deferred revenue balance was $12 billion, up 5%.

Over the last 10 years, we've reduced the shares outstanding by 1/3 at an average price of $55, which is, at this point, much less than 1/4 of our current stock price. This quarter, we repurchased 440,000 shares for a total of $95 million. In addition, we paid out dividends of $5 billion over the last 12 months, and the Board of Directors again declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share.

Given our RPO growth, I now expect fiscal year '26 CapEx will be around $35 billion. As a reminder, the vast majority of our CapEx investments are for revenue-generating equipment that is going into the data centers and not from land or buildings. As we bring more capacity online, we will convert the large RPO backlog into accelerating revenue and profit growth.

Now before I dive into specific Q2 guidance, I'd like to share some of the overarching thoughts on fiscal year '26 and the coming years. Clearly, it was an excellent quarter, and demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continues to build. I expect we will sign additional multibillion-dollar customers and that RPO will likely grow to exceed $0.5 trillion. The enormity of this RPO growth enables us to make a large upward revision to the cloud infrastructure portion of our financial plan. We now expect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will grow 77% to $18 billion this fiscal year and then increased to $32 billion, $73 billion, $114 billion and $144 billion over the following 4 years. Much of this revenue is already booked in our $455 billion RPO number, and we are off to a fantastic start this year.

Now while much attention is focused on our GPU-related business, our non-GPU infrastructure business continues to grow much faster than our competitors. We are also seeing our industry-specific cloud applications drive customers to our back-office cloud apps. And finally, the Oracle database is booming with 34 multi-cloud data centers now live inside of Azure, GCP and AWS, and we will deliver another 37 data centers for a total of 71.

All these trends point to revenue growth going higher. For fiscal year 2026, we remain confident and committed to full year total revenue growth of 16% in constant currency. Beyond fiscal year '26, I'm even more confident in our ability to further accelerate our top and bottom line growth rate. As mentioned, we will provide an update on our long-range financial targets at our financial analyst meeting at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas in October.

Now let me turn to my guidance for Q2, which I'll review on a non-GAAP basis and assuming currency exchange rates remain the same as they are now. Currency should have a $0.03 positive impact on EPS and a 1% positive effect on revenue, depending on rounding. However, the actual currency impact may be different as it was in Q1. Here it goes.

Total revenues are expected to grow from 12% to 14% and in constant currency and are expected to grow from 14% to 16% in U.S. dollars at today's exchange rates. Total cloud revenue is expected to grow from 32% to 36% in constant currency and is expected to grow from 33% to 37% in USD.

Non-GAAP EPS is expected to grow between 8% to 10% and between -- and be between $1.58 and $1.62 in constant currency. Non-GAAP EPS and is expected to grow 10% to 12% and be between $1.61 and $1.65 in USD. And lastly, my EPS guidance for Q2 assumes a base tax rate of 90%. However, onetime tax events could cause actual tax rates to vary as they did this quarter.

Larry, over to you.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Thank you, Safra. Eventually, AI will change everything. But right now, AI is fundamentally transforming Oracle and the rest of the computer industry, though not everyone fully grasp the extent of the Tsunami that is approaching.

Look at our quarterly numbers. Some things are undeniably evident. Several world-class AI companies have chosen Oracle to build large-scale GPU-centric data centers to train their AI models. That's because Oracle builds gigawatt scale data centers that are faster and more cost efficient at training AI models than anyone else in the world.

Training AI models is a gigantic multitrillion dollar market. It's hard to conceive of the technology market as large as that one. But if you look close, you can find one that's even larger. And it's the market for AI inferencing, Millions of customers using those AI models to run businesses and governments. In fact, the AI inferencing market will be much, much larger than the AI training market. AI inferencing will be used to run robotic factories, robotic cars, robotic greenhouses, biomolecular simulations for drug design, interpreting medical diagnostic images and laboratory results, automating laboratories, placing bets in financial markets, automating legal processes, automating financial processes, automating sales processes. AI is going to write, that is generate the computer programs called AI agents that will automate your sales and marketing processes.

Let me repeat that. AI is going to automatically write the computer programs that will then automate your sales processes and your legal processes and everything else, and you're in your factories and so on. Think about it. It's AI inferencing that will change everything. Oracle is aggressively pursuing the AI -- and we're not doing badly in the AI training market, by the way. But inferencing is bigger. Oracle is aggressively pursuing the inferencing market as well as the AI training market. We think we are in a pretty good position to be a winner in the inferencing market because Oracle is by far the world's largest custodian of high-value private enterprise data.

With the introduction of our new AI database, we added a very important new way for you to store your data in our database. You can vectorize it. And by vectorizing it, by vectorizing all your data, all your data can be understood by AI models. Then we made it very easy for our customers to directly connect all their databases, all their new Oracle AI databases and cloud storage, OCI cloud storage to the world's most advanced AI reasoning models. ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama, all of which are uniquely available in the Oracle Cloud.

After you vectorize your data and link it to an LLM, the LLM of your choice, you can then ask any question you can think of. For example, how will the latest tariffs impact next quarter's revenue and profit? You asked that question, the large language model will then apply advanced reasoning to the combination of your private enterprise data plus publicly available data. You get answers to important questions without ever compromising the safety and security of your private data.

Again, I'd like you to think about this for a moment. A lot of companies are saying, we're being into AI because we're writing agents. We'll get -- we're writing a bunch of agents too. But when they introduced ChatGPT almost 3 years ago, what you've got to do is have a conversation and ask questions. You didn't -- you weren't automating some process with an agent. You could ask whatever question you wanted to ask and get a well-reasoned answer with all of the latest and best information and high-quality leasing go along with it. Who's offering that to customers? We'll be the first when we deliver it and demonstrate it at AI World next month. That's what our customers have been asking for ever since the introduction of ChatGPT, 3.5 almost 3 years ago. I wanted to ask questions about anything. And therefore, you need to understand my enterprise data as well as all the publicly available data. Then you can answer the questions that are most important to me. Well, now they can ask those questions.

Back to you, Safra.

Ken Bond
executive

Thank you, Larry. Tiffany, please pull the audience for questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of John DiFucci with Guggenheim Securities.

J
John DiFucci
analyst

Listen, even I sort of blown away by what this looks like going forward? And this question, I guess, is sort of purposely open ended. So Larry and Safra, Oracle's become the de facto standard for AI training workloads and you make money at it and we have a lot of faith in that. But clearly, there's more here than just AI train. I know it's a big part of it. You talked about it. But can you talk about what else a little more detail about what else is driving these pretty amazing forecasts?

Safra Catz
executive

Go ahead, Larry, you were just referring to?

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Yes. Well, it's -- a lot of people are looking for inferencing capacity. I mean people are running out of inferencing capacity. I mean, the company that called us, I mentioned I think the last quarter or the quarter before, someone called us, we'll take all the capacity you have that's currently not being used anywhere in the world. We don't care. And I've never gotten a call at that time. That's very unusual call. That was for inferencing, not training.

There's a huge amount of demand for inferencing. And if you think about it, in the end, all this money we're spending on training is going to have to be translated into products that are sold, which is all inferencing. And the inferencing market, again, is much larger than the training market. And yes, we are building -- like everybody else, we're building agents with our applications. but we're doing much more than that. No one has shown me a ChatGPT 3.5 again 3 years ago -- 3.5 years ago, a little less than 3 years ago, when ChatGPT amazed the world. And you could simply talk to your computer and ask questions and get well-reasoned, well -- questions based on the latest and most precise information. as long as you ask those questions about publicly available data, and there's a lot of publicly available data. But if you combine the publicly available data with the enterprise data, which companies really don't want to share, you have to do it in such a way that your private enterprise data stays private, yet the large language model can still use it for reasoning.

So as to answer your question, like how does -- how do the latest tariffs or the latest steel prices or whatever affect my quarterly results. effect my ability to deliver products that affect my revenue back to my cost, answer those kinds of questions. The -- to answer those kind of questions, we have to and we have. We had to change our database, fundamentally change our database so you can vectorize all data. That's the form in which large language models understand information is that after it's been vectorized and then allowing people to ask any question they want about anything. And we -- that's exactly what we've done. But unless you have a database, that is secure and reliable and link to all of the popular LLMs, and we've done all of that, unless you have that and you have to tell me who else has that besides Oracle. Unless you have that, it's going to be very hard for you to deliver a ChatGPT like experience on top of your data as well as publicly available data. That's a unique value proposition for Oracle.

And that's because, again, we're the custodian of all much more data than any of the application companies. They have their application data. They measure their customers in tens of thousands. We measure our customers in millions of databases. So we think we're better positioned than anybody to take advantage of inferencing.

Safra Catz
executive

In addition, aside from just our GPU and all of that, we have become the de facto cloud for many of our customers. Again, they want to put some things in our public cloud or in our competitors' public cloud, working with the Oracle database, but simultaneously, there are a lot of reasons why they want what's called either a dedicated region or cloud customer. We give our customers so much choice that they're very unusual for us not to be able to meet a customer's needs in one way or another. And then, of course, we have every piece of the stack. We have the infrastructure. We have the database that you're going to hear a lot about as really the only reasonable store for data that you want to use AI models against. And then we have all of these applications that are just taking off. So we just have a lot of different layers. They're all moving in the same direction, and they all benefit our customers when used together.

J
John DiFucci
analyst

Listen, my hat's off -- Go ahead.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Go ahead, John. Maybe you're going to complement us and I interrupted you. What -- so I apologize for being rude.

J
John DiFucci
analyst

I was just going to say as off to both of you. I have been doing this for a really long time, and I tell my old team pay attention to this, even those that are not working on Oracle because this is a career event happening right now, and it looks -- it's just amazing. And I guess I'm just really happy for you and congrats on this. It's amazing. Keep doing it.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

It's been a lot of work. And let me mention 2 other things. I think that are actually shocking. We have gotten the entire Oracle Cloud, the whole thing, every feature, every function of the Oracle Cloud down to something we can put into a handful of racks, 3 racks, we call it Butterfly that cost $6 million. So we can give you a private version of the Oracle Cloud with every feature, every security feature every function, everything we do for $6 million. I think the cost for -- the other hyperscalers is more than -- more than 100x that. So we can actually give our customers cloud and customer, the full cloud customer. And we have companies like Vodafone. And I'm not sure which companies I can name which companies I can't we have large companies that are buying basically their own Oracle cloud regions.

In fact multiple Oracle cloud regions because they don't want to have any neighbors in their cloud. They don't want other companies in their cloud, but they want the full cloud. They want to pay as they consume, they want all the features, all the functions, all the safety to security. They don't want to have to buy it. They want us to buy and own the software and the hardware, they want us to maintain it, build the network to supply all of that and they just want a paper consumption. We can do that. Add an entry-level price that's 1% of what our competitors can offer. That's one thing.

Another -- let me give you one more and I'll stop there. We also have the most advanced application generator of any company. It's interesting. We're an application company and a cloud infrastructure company. And therefore, we build applications. And as we build applications, we'd like to be more efficient. And the way to be more efficient is to build AI application generators, and we have been doing that. And we -- the latest applications that we are building, we're not building them. They're being generated by AI. And we think we're far, far ahead of any of the other application companies in terms of generating the applications.

So that's another very significant advantage we have. And of course -- and it's funny, I made the comment that we don't charge separately for our AI and our applications because our applications are AI. They're entirely AI. The new ones. The new ones that we're building. There are nothing other than a bunch of AI agents that we generate that are linked together with workflow. That's all they are. How do you charge separately for that? That's every application that we have. But the applications are better, and hopefully, we'll sell more, and that's the way we'll get paid for them. Thank you, John, for the very nice complement.

J
John DiFucci
analyst

Thank you, Larry. Thank you, Safra.

Safra Catz
executive

Thank you, John, for all these years following us so kindly also. Great day. Probably time for another question at this point.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Brad Zelnick with Deutsche Bank.

B
Brad Zelnick
analyst

Great. Thanks very much. And I think we're all kind of in shock in a very, very good way. Larry, there's no better evidence of a seismic shift happening in computing than these results that you just put up. Oracle has a near 50-year track record of navigating transitions and coming out on top. But as we think about enterprise applications, investors are fairly pessimistic these days, and I'd love to hear your perspective. Where do you see this all going for the industry? Where does the market share go to the companies that don't have the database, don't have the advantages that you have all the way down to the silicon? Is this maybe an extension event be curious to hear what you think?

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Well, I think we have substantial advantages because we are an infrastructure company, and we are an application company. There are 2 things that happen as an application company, we needed -- we knew we had to start generating our applications. We just couldn't do with armies of people anymore. We still need people, don't get me wrong. But the number of people we need is substantially less. And we can build/generate much better applications than we can hand build. And we've been working on these AI application generators for some time, and we're actually using them. But the thing is we're not just building application generators. We're building application generators and then we're building the applications, which gives us insights to make the application generator better. You -- it's a huge advantage to be on both sides of that equation, both being an application builder and a builder of the obligation generation technology, the underlying AI application code generators. That's a huge advantage.

Let me give you another advantage, which is often a disadvantage. We're very large. We no longer sell individual discrete applications. We sell suites of applications. We decided to go into the medical business against EPIC, believing that we could solve much more of the problem because we're much bigger than they are. And by the way, we're much bigger than Workday and -- or ServiceNow. And we're solving a larger portion of the problem. We're able to do all of ERP, then we can add all of CRM, but all the pieces are engineered to fit together. That makes it so much easier for customers to consume. So we think that selling -- being good at application generation, the underlying technology makes us better, build better applications enables us to build more applications so we can solve more of the problem, so the customers don't have to do all that system integration across multiple vendors. We can just build a suite where all the pieces are engineered to fit together.

I think we have tremendous advantages in the application space. We have tremendous advantages in the AI inferencing space where we can -- again, what we'll demonstrate at Oracle AI World next month is we've taken all of our customer data, all of it. I won't go into all the details now. But you can ask any question you want to ask. Who's your salesperson, who's the #1 prospect in my territory? What product should I be selling them next? What are the reference -- what are the best references for me to use could persuade them to use our to use our product? You can get all of those questions answered for you immediately if you're a salesperson, the engineers can look at which features of Oracle Financials are people making the most errors when they're using those features, but I have to fix and make easier to use. You just asked the question because all of that data is available to AI models. We're the only -- is there anyone else doing this? Not that I know of. It's a huge event.

B
Brad Zelnick
analyst

Look forward to AI World, Larry. Thank you. It's an amazing day for Oracle. It's a remarkable day for the industry. Thanks again and congrats.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Derrick Wood with TD Cowen.

J
James Wood
analyst

Great. I'll echo my congratulations on this momentous quarter. Safra, the fact that you delivered over $300 billion of new RPO in Q1, just really amazing to see, but it's going to require a lot of infrastructure build out. So could you provide a bit more context on how much CapEx and operational cost structure will be needed to fully service these contracts? How we should think about the ramp of these costs relative to the ramp in revenue over the next few years? And generally, how investors should be thinking about the ROI on the spend?

Safra Catz
executive

Sure. So first of all, as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, and as I've said very clearly beforehand, we do not own the property. We do not own the buildings. What we do own and what we engineer is the equipment. And that's equipment that is optimized for the Oracle Cloud. It has extremely special networking capabilities. It has technical capabilities from Larry and his team that allows us to run these workloads much, much faster. And as a result, it's much cheaper than our competitors, and depending on the workload. Now because of that, what we do is we put in that equipment only when it's time and usually very quickly assuming that our customer accept it we're already generating revenue right away. The faster they accept the system and that it meets their needs, the faster they start using it the sooner we have revenue. This is, in some ways, I don't want to call it asset light from the finance world, but it's asset pretty light. And that is really an advantage for us.

I know some of our competitors, they like to own buildings that's not really our specialty. Our specialty is the unique technology, the unique networking, the storage, just the whole way we put these systems together. And by the way, they are identical and very simplified and again, making it possible for us to be very profitable while still being able to offer our customers an incredibly compelling price. What I have indicated is that CapEx looks like it's going to be about $35 billion for this fiscal year. But because we're monitoring this, we're literally putting it in right when we take possession and then handing it over to generate revenue right away.

So we're very -- we have a very good line of sight for our capabilities to put this out and to and basically to just spend on that CapEx right before it starts generating revenue. But at this point, I'm looking at $35 billion for the year. And I think -- I mean it could be a little higher, but I think -- and if it is higher, it's good news because it means more capacity has been handed over to me in terms of floor space. And as you also know, we are embedded in our competitors' cloud, again, all we are responsible for to pay for is, in fact, our equipment, and that goes right away. And there, we're moving ultimately to 71 data centers embedded in our competitors/partners.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Let me add a couple of very short things. One is we just turned over a giant data hall to 1 of our customers. And the acceptance time could have been as long as a couple of months. It was 1 week. It was 1 week from the time we owned -- officially owned the equipment, and they were testing it to the time they started paying for it. 1 week. So we have an extraordinary team that's doing an extraordinary job of making sure that we get the equipment working very quickly. And the -- and our customers can accept it, they want to accept it as fast as possible because they want to do the work, they want to train their models. And this one took a huge hall, took 1 week for acceptance. It was extraordinary that.

The other we are a very large consumer of networking equipment, GPUs, et cetera. Because we are a very large consumer, we are able, I think, to get better financing terms from the vendors than some of their people. So I think we have that going for us as well. I think we're going to do very well on the finance side. We have advantages there as well.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Mark Moerdler with Bernstein Research.

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Mark Moerdler
analyst

Thank you very much, Larry and Safra, and frankly, Team Oracle amazing and congratulations. I'd like to focus on the AI training business you've been winning. Could you please explain to us how Oracle can create enough of a differentiated moat to assure this business does not get commoditized? And how do you continue to drive strong earnings and free cash flow from the training business, even if training slows? I think people really need to understand that.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Well, let me -- I mean, I can do it with one sentence. Our networks move data very, very fast. And if we can move data faster than the other people, if we have advantages in our super -- our GPU super clusters that are performance advantages. If you're paying by the hour if we're twice as fast, we're half the cost.

Operator

Your final question comes from the line of Alex Zukin with Wolfe Research.

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Aleksandr Zukin
analyst

I really appreciate you squeezing me in. I originally was going to ask you if the new Oracle AI database really opens up the general enterprise inferencing market. And based on your script, it sounds like the answer to that question is hell yes. So I guess my follow-up question would be, do you -- how do you see that pacing happening over the course of the next few years? How soon after the introduction of the Oracle AI database would you expect your enterprise customers, your sophisticated customers to really be open to interrogating their enterprise data in this fashion? And how does the current supply-constrained environment stand in the way of that demand? Or is it solving as we speak? .

Safra Catz
executive

I don't know if Larry, you want to go for it. You covered it in prepared remarks. Go ahead.

Lawrence Ellison
executive

Okay. I think who wouldn't want that? I mean I think everyone says they want to use AI. I mean every -- I mean, CEOs, they don't want to use AI heads of state, heads of government say they want to use AI. We've never had consumers like that. I mean we -- historically, we don't deal with CEOs. Now we deal with CEOs. Now we do with Heads of Government, Heads of States on this because AI is so important. And letting people have used AI on top of their data. That is what they want to do. But they didn't know how to do it securely. They didn't know how to -- well, they did know how to do it period. And one of the big risks was, oh, my god, I can't share my -- BP Morgan Chase can't share all of its data. Goldman Sachs can't share all of his data with OpenAI. They won't do it. So -- or xAI or Llama or Meta. They won't -- it's got to get it private.

So we've got to keep your private data private. We've got to keep your private data secure. But we have to make it available for inferencing by the latest and best reasoning models from open AI and AI and everyone else. And we've -- because we have the database because we can vectorize all the data in the database because we have very elaborate security models in our database in the Oracle database, we can do all that. We can deliver all that. And then what we chose to do was to -- with the AI database was not only make sure we can vectorize all the data so it can be understood by the AI model, we then bundled it with all of the AI models. That's why we did a deal with Google. That's why we did all of these deals, where Gemini, you can get Gemini from the Oracle Cloud, you can get Grok from the Oracle Cloud. You can get ChatGPT from the Oracle Cloud. You get Llama from the Oracle Cloud. I could go on.

So we bundled them together, so it's very easy for our customers to use these large language models on a combination, and that's what they want is a combination of all of the publicly available data and all of their enterprise data, which allows them to ask and get answered any question they can think of any question that's important to them. Everyone wants it. I think the demand is going to be insatiable. But -- we can deliver a lot of databases and a lot of AI across our cloud over the next several years. We're in a good position to do that.

Safra Catz
executive

And this is going to be one of the reasons that Oracle databases, which are still the bulk of the enterprise market by a lot are going to finally move into the cloud. Many of them will move from the public cloud using the Oracle AI database. But many and the largest enterprises will want their own either dedicated regions or Oracle Cloud customer. And again, they can finally get the benefit of for their own data using any LLM that they want because they're all in our cloud, too.

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Aleksandr Zukin
analyst

It sounds like very high-margin AI revenue guys. Congratulations.

Safra Catz
executive

Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

Ken Bond
executive

Thanks, Aleks. A telephonic replay of this conference call will be available for 24 hours on our Investor Relations website. Thank you for joining us today.

With that, I'll turn the call back to Tiffany for closing.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.

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