DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Management & Operations Channel, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report
After Meta reveals plans for its own cloud business
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Data center operators offer potential job opportunities to laid off Meta workers
The industry is booming, but hyperscalers keep cutting jobs
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Meta begins laying off 8,000 workers, including data center staff
Even as the job cuts look to help fund more AI data centers
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Meta's head of energy leaves social network giant
Urvi Parekh departs after 10 years at the company
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Meta partners with CBRE to train data center technicians in the US for free
Successful graduates will go on to work at Meta data centers
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Meta considers layoffs of up to 20% to fund AI data center buildout
As Oracle also readies massive job cuts
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13 more detained and released to ICE at Meta data center site in Louisiana
Follows two arrests last week
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Gun confiscated at Meta data center in New Albany, Ohio
No one was harmed
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Crane accident at Meta's planned South Carolina data center, no injuries
No critical equipment damaged
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Experienced data center workers caught in Meta layoffs
3,600 cuts, allegedly for 'low performance'
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Meta plans to lay off five percent of staff from Monday, hire machine learning engineers
Claims to be targeting lowest performers
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OpenAI hires Meta's head of AI compute and storage supply chain
Keith Heyde joins as OpenAI ramps up for Stargate data center build out
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Nick Clegg steps down as Meta's president of global affairs
Departs the company after almost seven years
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Strike at Meta’s Clonee data center in Ireland deferred, case instead goes to court
Workers revolting against changing shift patterns
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Workers at Meta's Irish data center plan strike, accuse company of union-busting
Connect union claims Meta has threatened to fire strikers
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Meta creates new server utilization emissions metric
Company says metric can provide real-time view of servers’ embodied emissions
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Former Meta executive Jason Taylor joins Microsoft's data center team
Following Microsoft's increased spend on data centers
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Erik Meijer leaves Meta, says there is "no advantage to be inside a large corp if you want to build cool stuff on top of LLMs"
Alongside the senior director of generative AI and another researcher
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Meta accuses former VP of taking employee and supplier data to Omniva, files lawsuit
Accused exec had been with the company for 12 years
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Open Compute partner Jtec offers cart able to move full data center racks
Speculations abound that the server cart is already in use by Meta
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Instagram goes down in global outage
Meta's app takes a nap
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Meta begins third round of layoffs
Currently set to be the last round of cuts
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Meta to lay off another 10,000 employees
And stop trying to hire 5,000 workers
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Thousands more could be laid off from Meta as soon as this week
A 'year of efficiency' means a year of job cuts
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Meta reportedly plans further layoffs in March
As work at the company slows to a halt amid confusion and a lack of focus
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Meta opens logistics hub in Las Vegas warehouse district
Facility will handle logistics for Meta’s data centers
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Meta plans large-scale layoffs impacting thousands at Facebook parent company
The latest hyperscaler to cut back