data center giant OracleShares of the company rose 5% in premarket Monday after the company announced plans to raise up to $50 billion to develop additional capacity for customers.

Hyperscalers scramble to build the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence, with data center deals reaching record $61 billion In 2025, several large technology companies invested huge amounts of money in a financing boom.

Oracle said on Sunday it plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in total cash proceeds in 2026 to build additional capacity to meet contracted demand from cloud customers, including NVIDIA, Yuanopen artificial intelligence, AMDTikTok and xAI. Funding will be raised in the form of debt and equity.

Oracle has recently made a huge bet on the deployment of artificial intelligence infrastructure. In September, it raised $18 billion in a bond offering and signed a $300 billion deal with OpenAI.

Investors have Flag concerns Oracle’s aggressive AI building plans and debt financing.

Oracle’s stock price has fallen 50% since its peak in September. It then fell 11% Disappointing quarterly results In December, the company reported revenue that was slightly below expectations.

Thursday, Microsoft Share price fell 10% While many analysts remain bullish, investors are concerned about slightly lower-than-expected growth in its cloud computing platform Azure and other cloud services.

Meta stock rises 8% The company reported huge spending on artificial intelligence that day.