If you’re an Oracle customer, Larry Ellison has turned your company data into “vectors.” That’s tech talk for dissecting info into math numbers so AI can consume on it fast. He declared about it at Oracle’s big Las Vegas party this week, saying their database can vectorize anything—Oracle stuff, rival databases, even data stuck in another cloud.
Goal? Let AI assess and predict what you’ll buy next. Picture this: Oracle’s AI scans 6 months of your orders, then spits out the three happiest customers who already use that product. Sales reps send you an email: “Hey, these guys love it—your turn!”
Ellison calls this an “AI agent” that writes its own program to assess your wallet.He says it started with customer data because “nothing’s more important than customers.” An irritated neighbor might mutter, “Nothing’s more valuable, either.” Once the AI knows your habits, it could nudge prices, spot audit targets, or squeeze every extra license fee. Oracle didn’t ask permission; it just did it.Meanwhile, the AI gold rush is burning cash like dry grass.
Oracle’s building huge data centers—half a million Nvidia chips in Texas, sucking 1.2 gigawatts, enough energy for a medium city. Eight huge sheds on 1,000 acres, all linked for one big job. Power comes from the grid plus on-site gas turbines. OpenAI supposedly promised Oracle $300 billion for more buildings, even though the startup has only raised $60–70 billion and loses money daily. Oracle’s new co-CEO says : “Of course they’ll pay.”Ellison waves off planet worries.
He owns a Hawaiian island and says AI will fix climate change. His institute backs a startup using AI to grow super-crops that yank CO2 from the air, turn it into chalk, and feed more people. UN says carbon hit a record high last year; sinks are fading. Crops better hurry.He even flashed a red Oracle ambulance on stage—connected, AI-driven, ready to save exploding brains from too much hype. “We’re building prototypes,” he laughed.
“Two years ago, if you said we’d run billion-watt power plants, I’d tell you to sleep more.”Walking out, the crowd of suits might feel dizzy. Their data’s already vectorized, sales bots are warming up, and the electric bill for AI dreams could light the moon. Welcome to the future—consent optional.
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