
Oracle Plans 30,000 Layoffs to Fund $50B AI Data Center Bet
Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 jobs to free $8-10 billion in cash flow for AI data centers, the largest AI-driven corporate restructuring announced to date.

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 jobs to free $8-10 billion in cash flow for AI data centers, the largest AI-driven corporate restructuring announced to date.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.

OpenAI projects $600 billion in compute spending through 2030, with NVIDIA investing $30 billion and a potential $1 trillion IPO. But inference costs quadrupled in 2025 and the Stargate project faces internal disputes.