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OpenAI is expanding its Dublin EU HQ with 250 new jobs and 88,000 sq ft of office space. Meta and TikTok recently cut Irish roles due to AI. Anthropic is also growing in Dublin.

OpenAI is expanding its Dublin EU HQ with 250 new jobs and 88,000 sq ft of office space. Meta and TikTok recently cut Irish roles due to AI. Anthropic is also growing in Dublin.

OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the city’s Docklands. The company currently employs around 100 people in Ireland and established its European presence there in 2023. The new roles span engineering, sales, user operations, HR, finance, privacy, and legal. OpenAI said the expansion is driven by “rapidly growing demand from users, customers and developers across the European region.”

The timing is pointed. Meta and TikTok both recently announced job cuts in Ireland, with AI cited as a factor. Ireland has been disproportionately affected by AI-related layoffs across the tech sector. The companies creating the AI tools that eliminate roles and the companies hiring to deploy those tools are operating in the same Dublin postcode. OpenAI won US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing, and the Dublin expansion positions the company to sell that capability across Europe with local staff who understand EU regulation.

Anthropic is also expanding its Dublin workforce. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of Meta, Apple, Alphabet, and most of the largest US tech companies, drawn by English-speaking talent, EU single-market access, and a historically favourable corporate tax regime. OpenAI and Anthropic joining the same city creates a concentration of frontier AI talent in Dublin that did not exist two years ago.

“Ireland’s talent base and strong research ecosystem puts us in a strong position to take advantage of the AI revolution,” said Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin. Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO this year, and both companies are building European operations ahead of potential public listings that will require demonstrable international revenue. Dublin gives them a regulatory beachhead inside the EU’s AI Act jurisdiction and a hiring pool already trained by the same tech companies that are now cutting headcount. The 250 jobs OpenAI is adding may not offset the thousands Ireland has lost, but they signal where the replacement roles are coming from.

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