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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

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Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

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Oracle began laying off thousands of employees on 31 March 2026 via 6 a.m. termination emails across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico.
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  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    These numbers genuinely don’t make sense to me.

    Oracle has committed to an aggressive AI infrastructure buildout that requires an estimated $156 billion in capital spending, according to TD Cowen.

    cuts will affect 18% of Oracle’s 162,000-person workforce and free up $8-10 billion

    They’re cutting a fifth of their workforce to raise a fifteenth of the capital they plan to spend??

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      AI is just a pretext here

      • Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Plausible deniability ig

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It won’t pay for it, but it’ll service the debt they had to go into in order to pay for it for a while. Cutting your grocery bill to free up money to make your payment on your new Cybertruck.

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I initially missed the word “to” in this headline and was very concerned for a moment

    • DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      It’s only a matter of time.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      holy same, i came to the comments to see what kind of joke i can come up with about that not being necessary to pay for anything.

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    That sounds like a good idea that definitely wont backfire spectacularly


    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      You can cut tons of weight by taking off the wheels

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