Hey everyone,
What an absolutely incredible week at Oracle AI World.
From hands-on demos and deep technical discussions to late-night conversations with colleagues who feel more like family, this one hit different. It wasn’t just about “AI hype.” It was about real deployments, real industries, real outcomes.
If you weren’t there or if the week was a blur (same 😄), here are my top takeaways and highlight posts to catch you up.
1. 🤝 Oracle Is Not Adding AI… They’re Rebuilding Around It
The message from leadership couldn’t have been clearer:
Oracle isn’t bolting AI on; they’re building it in.
We saw:
- Hundreds of new AI agents
- AI-native enterprise workflows
- Real results across healthcare, retail, finance,and energy
📌 If you missed the summary from Day 1:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billkleyman_oracle-genai-vegas-activity-7383590576249659392-vjRM
2. 🏗️ Industry-Level Use Cases Are Already Live
I got to preview some jaw-dropping demos at the Oracle Industry Lab:
- Robot dogs monitoring work sites
- Autonomous drones handling safety and transport tasks
- A full simulated storm environment for emergency scenarios
📌 Sneak peek here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billkleyman_oci-oracle-oracleaiworld-activity-7381697884766785538-jY98
3. ☁️ Multi-Cloud That Actually Makes Sense
Oracle Database running natively on AWS with Exadata performance is a major shift.
Add to that:
Universal multi-cloud credits → one pricing structure across OCI, AWS, Azure & Google Cloud.
📌 Breakdown and interview with OCI leadership:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billkleyman_oci-devops-azure-activity-7383932861608882176-GwEj
4. 🧠 Larry Ellison’s Vision & The AI Data Center Era
Larry’s keynote was powerful.
He spoke about AI models solving real-world challenges, especially in healthcare, and unveiled one of the largest AI data centers on Earth:
- 1.2GW capacity
- ~500,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs
- Built as an AI factory for training & large-scale inference
📌 My full notes (yes… it was a long one 😄):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billkleyman_nvidia-gb200-aidatacenters-activity-7384049473548857344-hgEw
🆕 Plus Two Big Community Updates
1. 📊 AFCOM State of the Data Center Survey 2026 Is Live
This is the benchmark report for where our industry is headed next:
- AI workloads
- Liquid cooling adoption
- Power and sustainability
- The talent pipeline
⏱️ Takes 5–10 minutes
🎁 First 100 respondents → $10 Amazon gift card
📅 Deadline: November 14
👉 Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/gh_sGr4i
2. 🎤 Norton Rose Fulbright x AFCOM Event Chicago
Had the honor of delivering a keynote and joining discussions on:
- Distributed power generation
- AI construction and design impact
- Community-first data center planning
The collaboration, ideas, and energy were amazing.
We have a truly special community.
📌 Full recap:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/billkleyman_datacenters-aiinfrastructure-afcom-activity-7387327793962885120-5dzi
🌍 Insight Spotlight
I recently spoke about what’s unfolding in Africa’s digital infrastructure landscape and why AI + energy + talent access is the defining challenge of the next decade.
⚡ Power, Scale & The Future of Digital Infrastructure
If there’s one theme that stood out both at Oracle AI World and across the industry right now, it’s this:
Power is becoming the primary constraint and the primary competitive advantage.
We’re watching the conversation shift from “How many GPUs can you deploy?”
to
“How much power can you secure, optimize, and sustain?”
A few signals worth calling out:
🔌 Data Center World POWER 2025: Power Is the New Currency
The event made it crystal clear: energy access now determines data center scale, margin, and speed to market.
This isn’t a side conversation anymore, it’s the conversation.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251002582677/en/Data-Center-World-POWER-2025-Proves-Power-Is-the-New-Currency-of-the-Digital-Age
⚡ Texas Is Emerging as a Strategic Power Hub
At the recent industry forum, leaders highlighted Texas’s unique position to support massive private power generation for data centers.
Future buildouts: 20–40 GW of new demand by 2035.
That’s not incremental growth, that’s foundational.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power-supply/texas-data-center-potential-unveiled-at-industry-power-forum
🌍 Africa’s Next Digital Leap — But Power & Talent Will Decide the Outcome
Africa is emerging as one of the most strategically important regions for data center and AI expansion.
Demand for compute and cloud services is growing fast — but two constraints are rising even faster:
- Power availability
- Technical talent capacity
Current forecasts show:
- Data center energy demand growing ~25% annually
- Reaching ~8,000 GWh in the coming years
That level of growth requires new power procurement models, regional infrastructure planning, workforce development, and cross-border collaboration.
This isn’t a challenge story — it’s an opportunity story for the next decade of digital ecosystems.
📎 Industry context:
https://businessday.ng/technology/article/ai-energy-shortages-talent-retention-crisis-threaten-africas-digital-gold-rush/
📈 Forecast & energy demand analysis:
https://nairametrics.com/2025/10/10/africas-data-center-power-demand-grows-25-annually-to-reach-8000-gwh-experts/