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Oracle is reportedly planning to cut an additional 70 jobs in Ireland to trim costs amid heavy AI infrastructure spending.

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Post: "More layoffs 😞"

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RedditOct 7, 2026By u/Reasonable-Food4834

r/DevelEire

More layoffs 😞

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250
comments
114

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  • [image] Oracle is looking to cut another 70 Irish jobs this year as it continues to trim costs to fund its expensive push into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and data centres.

  • [comment u/throughthehills2] Cutting 70 people on a salary of 100k would save 7 million. Meanwhile they have 18 billion debt from building data centres

  • [comment u/MyPhantomAccount] Thats a fair chunk of the remaining staff, over 10%

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5 of 114 comments
  • β€œNo joke., govt needs to look at the critical skills list and reduce the number.of visas. It's a bloodbath atm”

    u/Enough-Square1154199 points Β· Oct 7, 2026View

  • β€œSomething tells me it wont be the last round of Oracle layoffs”

    u/Irish_Narwhal49 points Β· Oct 7, 2026View

  • β€œFuck AI”

    u/Responsible-Total90943 points Β· Oct 7, 2026View

  • β€œCutting 70 people on a salary of 100k would save 7 million. Meanwhile they have 18 billion debt from building data centres”

    u/throughthehills236 points Β· Oct 7, 2026View

  • β€œOracle are in serious financial straits at the moment, having spent tens of billions on AI capex. it's so bad they are leasing unused data centre capacity to Tencent, which is legally dubious to say the least. Their credit rating is one notch above junk currently.”

    u/Potential-Drama-745528 points Β· Oct 7, 2026View

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