The article seems to be more about Oracle being forced to cough up $7B as collateral for one of their new shiny (future-) data centers - even though apparently they tried to make this requirement go away, but the regulators weren't touched by their crocodile tears.

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arm32 a day ago | parent [-]

I'm shocked regulators didn't budge. Good.

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jamesfinlayson a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm in Australia and in my experience gambling regulators don't budge. Other ones might not be as strong.

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jmalicki a day ago | parent [-]

This is the US. You can just throw a UFC party or something for Trump then you're good.

	▲	abrookewood a day ago \| parent [-]
		God I wish you were joking ...

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lovich a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am also shocked. As a second tier citizen for being merely a human instead of a corporation I am used to having to put up collateral to get big loan deals.

I am amazed that our betters are being held to the same standards. Maybe they forgot to pay a few million in lobbying to get the preferred treatment plan.

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ryandrake a day ago | parent | prev [-]

There must be something else going on. It's 2026. How in the world could a local government in the USA just... fail to let a corporation break the rules and do anything it wants? It defies belief.