{"id":989403,"date":"2026-02-03T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989403"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:11:21","slug":"oracle-plans-to-slash-headcount-by-20000-30000-to-pay-for-ai-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/oracle-plans-to-slash-headcount-by-20000-30000-to-pay-for-ai-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle plans to slash headcount by 20,000-30,000 to pay for AI data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle is weighing deep cost cuts, including the potential layoffs of 20,000 to 30,000 employees, as it scrambles to fund its aggressive build\u2011out of AI data centres, according to a research note from investment bank TD Cowen. <\/p>\n<p>These job cuts are likely to help ease the mounting financing pressures linked to Oracle\u2019s multiyear cloud infrastructure commitments, including a major contract to provide compute capacity for OpenAI and other AI customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle is weighing deep cost cuts, including the potential layoffs of 20,000 to 30,000 employees, as it scrambles to fund its aggressive build\u2011out of AI data centres, according to a research note from investment bank TD Cowen. These job cuts are likely to help ease the mounting financing pressures linked to Oracle\u2019s multiyear cloud infrastructure commitments, including a major contract to provide compute capacity for OpenAI and other AI customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}