Oracle targets 70 more jobs in Ireland amid AI infrastructure push

Oracle plans to eliminate another 70 positions in Ireland, adding to around 150 Irish jobs already cut this year as part of a wider restructuring linked to artificial intelligence infrastructure investment.

Irish redundancy process begins

The company began a collective redundancy process after telling employees of the planned reductions. Most of the 70 roles are expected to be in engineering and development, with some sales and finance positions also affected.

Oracle employs around 650 people in the Republic following its most recent Irish redundancies. It has offices in Dublin and Galway. Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke has been notified of the collective redundancy process.

The company did not respond to requests for comment cited by The Irish Times.

Part of global workforce reductions

The Irish reductions follow much larger global job cuts at Oracle. The company said in June that it had reduced global headcount by around 13 per cent, or about 21,000 employees, in the 12 months to the end of May. Another source described the global total as over 21,000 jobs, with headcount brought to around 141,000 during fiscal 2026.

Oracle began another round of cuts in September, although it did not disclose the number of people affected at that time. Later details showed that 546 employees in its America Cloud Infrastructure organisation were affected, including software developers, infrastructure engineers and managers.

One account of the fiscal 2026 restructuring said research and development lost about 7,000 employees, sales and marketing about 6,000, and cloud and services roughly 3,000 each.

AI and data-centre spending

The job reductions are occurring as Oracle expands cloud capacity and data centres to support demand for AI computing. Oracle reported $28.5 billion in capital expenditures in its latest quarter, compared with $8.5 billion a year earlier, and maintained a fiscal 2027 capital-expenditure forecast of between $90 billion and $95 billion.

Oracle has explicitly connected workforce reductions to AI in its annual report, stating that adoption and deployment of AI technologies across its operations had resulted, and could continue to result, in workforce reductions.

The broader restructuring also carries substantial exit costs. Oracle spent $1.84 billion (€1.64 billion) on severance payments and other restructuring exit costs in the 12 months to the end of May. Separately, it raised projected restructuring costs by another $700 million in September, bringing the expected total to approximately $2.8 billion, including severance, contract terminations and other exit costs.

The planned Irish cuts are therefore announced reductions within a broader cost and investment shift, rather than a standalone estimate of roles that AI may eventually displace.

Sources

• Oracle is cutting jobs worldwide. In Israel, it is still hiring | Ctech
• Oracle to cut another 70 jobs in Ireland in AI cost-cutting push – The Irish Times