{"id":20578,"date":"2026-10-06T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20578"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:13:41","slug":"tencent-scores-100000-offshore-ai-chip-deal-with-oracle-for-7-billion-despite-climbing-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20578","title":{"rendered":"Tencent scores 100,000 offshore AI chip deal with Oracle for $7 billion despite climbing prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Shane Downing  &bull; October 5, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Oracle has reportedly made a deal with Tencent for a five-year lease at several Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia, covering about 100,000 advanced AI chips unavailable in China. The deal is estimated to be worth about $7 billion, which would come out to about $1.60 per chip per hour over five years, with about 30% upfront, according to a report by the Financial Times ( FT ). The deal lands as compute rental prices continue to climb, per Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell on Tencent&#8217;s August 12 earnings call. Neither company has commented on the report, but such leases are legal under current U.S.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Shane Downing  &bull; October 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/data-centers\/tencent-scores-100-000-offshore-ai-chip-deal-with-oracle-for-usd7-billion-despite-climbing-prices-per-hour-costs-estimated-to-be-43-percent-under-standard-h100-rental-rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Tom&#8217;s Hardware &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story. Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull; Shane Downing &bull; October 5, 2026 Oracle has reportedly made a deal with Tencent for a five-year lease at several Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia, covering about 100,000 advanced AI chips unavailable in China. The<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20578\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}