Oracle, the database company, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that artificial intelligence "may continue to result in reductions to our workforce." Result in. As if the layoffs fell out of a tree.
A verb did the firing. Specifically: an intransitive one, conjugated to launder agency out of a room full of executives with Wharton MBAs and standing reservations at Nobu. Training one mid-size model emits roughly 300 tonnes of CO₂; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure runs thousands. That's 1.2 million tonnes a year if a tenth of their fleet trains continuously — I did the arithmetic on the back of a physics worksheet.
Larry reheats his pool to 88°F year-round in Woodside. He knows what the active voice is. He chose this sentence.
The workforce was not reduced by a weather event. It was reduced by Larry.
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Based on the original article "Oracle's 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments".
