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Tom's Hardware October 27, 2026 By Oliver Haslam neutral

60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary buyouts as AI buildout costs bite

MicrosoftAI / LLMData Center
Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.
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