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AI is taking jobs but for a different reason. Big Tech is in an AI race so they will shrink their staff or move jobs to India as much as possible to free capital for GPU datacenters. To hell with the consequences.

Meta, Alphabet, and Oracle are even issuing almost $60 billions in bonds. Unheard of.





I am curious to see if jobs are actually moving offshore. Is there any data suggesting this?

I was under the impression Big Tech is cutting jobs across the board, all regions.


Microsoft announces US $3bn investment over two years in India https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-announces-us-3bn-... (Jan 2025)

Google announces $15B investment in AI hub in India https://apnews.com/article/google-artificial-intelligence-vi... (3 weeks ago)

[Indian] ex-Accenture CTO named Google Cloud’s Chief Product https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-karthik-na... (last week) (a lot of people speculate they named an Indian Accenture guy to move as much as possible to India)

Big Tech giants defy US-India trade tensions, record strongest 12-month headcount growth in India in 3 years https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/big-tech-giants-defy... (September)

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/openai-launch-first-indi...

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-global-operations-t...

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Okay thanks for the links. I have supposedly not been reading the news.

Cannibalising their businesses....



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