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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml ) M to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres

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Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News
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Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.
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  • queermunist she/her ( queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Have we finally stopped pretending the layoffs are being caused by AI replacing workers?

    • BarneyPiccolo ( BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ) Banned from community
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      If you had a customer service phone center job that was replaced with an AI chatbot, you certainly did lose your job to AI.

      • queermunist she/her ( queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Not exactly. I’m sure there are specific cases where someone lost their job because AI does it better, but in most cases they lost their job because we’re in a recession and the company needed to use chatbots to cut costs.

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      I interacted once with a person fired from a QA position from Amazon (US) and she insisted that it was because of AI 100% so that kinda messed up my strong opinions tbh, maybe some are actually being fired because of it?

      • queermunist she/her ( queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Well, I believe they told her that.

  • Viking_Hippie ( Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    To the surprise of zero sane people 😮‍💨🤬

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      I’m a bit surprised the bubble kept going as long as it did. It’s absolutely wild how investors just kept throwing hundreds of billions at tech that didn’t have any clear business model, no market fit, and wasn’t making any substantial revenue.

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    First sign of the bubble bursting?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      hopefully

  • reallykindasorta ( reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ) 
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    Oracle is refashioning as a bank

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    I was just at lunch with family members from around the country, and two of them said that big data centers had recently been turned down by their local politicians.

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    So oracle eats its seed corn to build even more fucking data centers rather than accept the risk evaluations of their lenders.

    Man, what god damn geniuses over there. I bet they can’t wait to have their ghost writers felate them over this decision in their future “autobiographies” that will be for sale at the airport. Oh wait, silly me, there’s no ghost writers anymore!

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    Oh shit the first domino has fallen.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      may we see more in the coming weeks

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