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Data suggests that about a quarter of job losses in the last month were due to AI (and that’s a 25% increase from the previous month). It's important to remember that this doesn't necessarily mean that people's jobs are being replaced by AI, but rather that companies are choosing to invest more heavily in AI infrastructure or talent that can help build AI (which is why many of these companies continue to hire aggressively).
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Big Tech Layoffs
This week Oracle laid off up to 30,000 employees, and this brings us to about 85,000 tech workers who have already been impacted by layoffs in 2026.
Now, are these layoffs a result of AI taking jobs? Perhaps indirectly.
Two things are happening at most of these companies, and certainly at Oracle:
They are right-sizing after aggressive growth.
As an example, between 2015 and 2021, Oracle was consistently between 130 and 135,000 employees. (Shoutout to my bestie, Claude for the graphic here). Most spikes in growth are driven by acquisitions. And then headcount decreases over time as duplicative roles are eliminated. Of course, eliminating 20 to 30,000 roles at once is much more jarring than these gradual adjustments that we've seen in the past. But there is an element of right-sizing with these adjustments as well.
They are freeing up capital for AI investments.
Oracle is committed to building $500 billion in data centers as part of its partnership with OpenAI, and they have to free up capital in order to make those investments. It's entirely possible they had plenty of work for the 20 to 30,000 laid off people to do. However, they've decided they would rather forego some of that in favor of prioritizing building data centers at this time.
And that second area is likely to create jobs in other areas because the goal was less to cut jobs and more to reallocate budget to AI infrastructure. That means they're likely going to be hiring AI adjacent roles (cloud, data center ops, infrastructure, AI product work).
And of course, the people who will actually build and operate the data centers - electricians, HVAC technicians, structural engineers, construction project managers, power grid and utilities workers, security and facilities roles, supply chain and logistics.
That last set of job are often good, stable, unionized jobs that can't easily be offshored or automated away - so while this may not be the pivot everyone had in mind, I think it’s helpful to remember that economic contraction in one area is actively funding expansion in another. And of course, the creation of these jobs usually does come alongside a smaller number of corporate positions needed to support these workers.
So while AI is certainly playing a role in the volatility within the job market, it isn't necessarily taking over the work done by humans. In most cases, we're just seeing these big companies allocate their funds differently which shifts where job creation is happening.
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