Oracle Layoffs Hit Abilene Stargate Data Centre Despite OpenAI Deal Claims

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    "url": "https://www.thehansindia.com/tech/oracle-layoffs-hit-abilene-stargate-data-centre-despite-openai-deal-claims-1124034",
    "title": "Oracle Layoffs Hit Abilene Stargate Data Centre Despite OpenAI Deal Claims - The Hans India",
    "excerpt": "Oracle 's September 14 layoffs didn't spare Abilene, Texas - the very site the company has repeatedly showcased as evidence that its partnership with OpenAI is running smoothly. One worker there, an IC2 within OCI who says he'd only joined on February 2, shared his experience on the subreddit r/employeesOfOracle: his termination email went out at 5am Central, but he never actually saw it. Instead, he found out something was wrong when his badge stopped working at the entrance gate. By then, his Slack access was already gone. His most recent performance review, he noted, had read \"meets expectations.\" Another user in the same thread mentioned that Customer Hardware Support teams were cut across Abilene, Phoenix, and Ashburn. Abilene isn't just another site on Oracle's map - it's the centerpiece of its Stargate campus, the location Oracle regularly points to when discussing its 200MW of operational capacity and an eight-building construction project it claims is proceeding on schedule. Ironically, it's also the site OpenAI has chosen not to expand further, opting instead for clusters equipped with newer Nvidia chips, and the same facility that lenders reportedly refused to finance with Oracle listed as tenant. Oracle doesn't even own the property - it leases it from Crusoe under a 15-year agreement valued at over a billion dollars annually. Oracle has not issued any comment...",
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