Business & Economics
Meta Weighs 20 % Workforce Cut to Fund $600 B AI Build-Out
Leaked internal planning shows Meta may shed roughly 16,000 of its 79,000 employees—its biggest reduction yet—to divert cash toward massive AI data-centre spend, despite management publicly labeling the reports “speculative.”
Focusing Facts
- A 20 % cut would remove about 15,800–16,000 jobs from Meta’s 79,000-person headcount reported on 31 Dec 2025.
- Previous ‘year of efficiency’ rounds dropped 11,000 staff in Nov 2022 and another 10,000 in Mar 2023, plus a further 5 % cull in Jan 2025.
- Zuckerberg has outlined plans to commit up to $600 billion to AI infrastructure and data centres by 2028.
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