Oracle co-founder and former CEO Larry Ellison shared that the cloud company has ambitions to build "hundreds of data centers" worldwide , with at least one "in every country in the world."
This signals an alternative data center strategy to what top cloud giants AWS, Azure, And Google Cloud are opting for.
Ellison announced this plan via Zoom at the Oracle Database Summit, where he answered analysts' questions for more than an hour.
- Oracle is looking to differentiate ;itself from other cloud companies like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud by building hundreds of fully automated data centers running on its cloud services rather than building a small number of massive, costly data centers.
- Investing in these "huge and very expensive data centers," Ellison says, limits the ability of these major cloud vendors to expand their global presence at a competitive rate.
- Oracle claims its data centers cost significantly less than those of cloud hyperscalers.