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Finally an honest headline: Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres (ground.news)
submitted 6 hours ago by Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Most of the time the companies say the layoffs are because AI is doing people jobs, but the reality is that making things that use AI is just a lot more expensive. And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too. So, they need to cut cost elsewhere to balance it out.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 49 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

Clay Magouyrk (CEO):
Larry, in order to pay for these datacenters we might need to cut up to 20,000 jobs.

Larry Ellison:
Cut 30,000.

Clay Magouyrk:
But Larry, 20,000 would be more than...

Larry Ellison:

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 3 hours ago

As long as we're going with Gary Oldman:

"Fire everyone."

"What do you mean everyone?"

"EVERYONE!!!"

[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I’m going to watch this movie, right now, but the RiffTrax version

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

"Zorg, you're a monster."

"........I know."

[–] Foni@piefed.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

A really good reference