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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)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-microsoft-has-been-turning-off-rented-computing-capacity-from-d611a067
published: 2026-11-06T18:05:03.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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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)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-06 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-microsoft-has-been-turning-off-rented-computing-capacity-from-d611a067

Brody Ford / Bloomberg : 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 — Microsoft Corp. is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle Corp., part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships.

In this story: [Microsoft AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/microsoft-ai), [Oracle](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/oracle), [Nvidia](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/nvidia), [Bloomberg](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/bloomberg)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261106/p18#a261106p18)

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