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Google told staffers in its “People Operations” and cloud organizations this week that it plans to cut employees as a part of internal reorganizations, CNBC has learned. The company will offer a voluntary exit program to staffers in U.S.-based People Operations, Google’s human relations division, starting in early March, according to a memo issued by HR chief Fiona Cicconi that was viewed by CNBC. Separately, the company also made cuts to several teams within its cloud unit, mostly impacting operations support staff. Some of those moves include moving roles to other countries. The latest cuts come after finance chief Anat Ashkenazi said one of her top priorities would be to drive more cost-cutting as Google expands its spending on AI infrastructure in 2025. After the company reported revenue that missed expectations for the fourth quarter earlier this month, Ashkenazi said that the company had strong demand for AI products and that it “exited the year with more demand than we had available capacity.” Cloud is one of the company’s high-growth business units and benefits from AI products. Alphabet has been drawing profit from the cloud business as it tries to keep up with market leaders Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The company confirmed the org changes to CNBC, saying reorganizations are part of the normal course of business. The number of layoffs is unclear, but the company said it's a small quantity in the cloud unit and that the organization continues to hire for critical sales and engineering roles.