General Motors Co. on Monday laid off about 325 workers and confirmed plans to close its Georgia IT Innovation Center by the end of the year.

Most of the job cuts at the Roswell, Georgia, site are information technology workers, a trend across industries as artificial intelligence becomes more advanced.

“We are redefining our site strategy, unifying our technical teams in targeted hubs for better collaboration. With that, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our Georgia Innovation Center,” spokesperson Kevin Kelly said in a statement. “We recognize the efforts of the individuals whose roles are impacted, and we thank them for their contributions.”

Some of the roughly 575 remaining Georgia employees will remain on staff through mid-2026, and others will be offered transfers or remote positions, depending on their skills. Laid-off workers will be offered severance per GM policy, Kelly said in an email.

GM in 2023 closed another IT center in suburban Phoenix, where 940 employees worked. At the time, Kelly said the Chandler, Arizona, site was redundant because the company had three other tech centers.

“As part of GM’s continued transformation, and to better align our Innovation Center footprint and IT resources in the US, we have made the decision to cease our IT operation at our Chandler, AZ, Innovation Center later this year," Kelly said in 2023. "Employees working in our software defined vehicle teams will remain in AZ."

GM also has tech centers in Warren and Austin, Texas.

The company has been paring down its salaried ranks. On Friday, the automaker laid off more than 200 salaried staff in design engineering. The company earlier this month let go an undisclosed number of employees who worked under GM's Hydrotec brand after shuttering the hydrogen fuel cell program.

GM opened the Georgia tech center in 2013 during an IT hiring binge. The year before, GM announced plans to in-source 90% of the company's IT workforce and reduce costs to reinvest in innovation.

In 2012, GM employed about 1,400 IT workers globally. By 2015, the company employed 10,000. Kelly said Monday the automaker would not disclose its current number of IT workers "for competitive reasons."

The layoffs and building closure came days after a GM tech showcase in New York where executives promised to roll out eyes-off autonomous driving and "conversational" AI powered by Google Gemini beginning in 2028.

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