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09.10.26 - 22:00
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"Delayed Revenue, Delayed Cash Flow": Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Data Center Delays Could Crush Its Debt (ZeroHedge)
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"Delayed Revenue, Delayed Cash Flow": Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Data Center Delays Could Crush Its Debt
There is a comforting story going around credit desks about Oracle's data center problems: if the buildings are late, the capex is late too, and that buys the balance sheet some time.
Morgan Stanley isn't buying it.
In a new note titled "ORCL Credit: Lighthouse in the Fog" (available to pro subs), MS credit analysts Lindsay Tyler and Benjamin Guerrero pick up where we left off on Tuesday, when we reported that Oracle's 1.3GW "Project Lighthouse" campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin was next in line to slip after Project Jupiter's force majeure.
Their conclusion was blunt: a delay, Tyler told Bloomberg in an interview, "also means delayed monetization and delayed proof of concept, delayed revenue, delayed cash flow." For a company with over $600 billion of future revenue tied to AI data center construction, that's the whole investment case.
That ...
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