DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Workforce & Skills, Microsoft
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Microsoft hires new director of global energy and sustainability policy
Ray Fakhoury III joins from AWS
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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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Microsoft plans to cut 4,800 jobs
Primarily impacts Xbox, but cloud workers also hit
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Microsoft's Azure Core CTO latest to join Anthropic
Marcus Fontoura aims to "help build the next generation of AI systems"
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Kawasaki partners with Nvidia and Microsoft to integrate AI with robotics at new center in San Jose, California - report
Center set to house robots to be used for demonstrations with US partner companies
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Microsoft's Eric Boyd joins Anthropic as head of infrastructure
Boyd previously led engineering of hardware and software for AI models on Azure
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Microsoft's head of AI infrastructure departs
Nidhi Chappell led the company's OpenAI data center buildout
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Sean James, Microsoft's senior director of energy & data center research, joins Nvidia
James headed many of Microsoft's most ambitious data center research projects, including Project Natick
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Microsoft's Richard Hage joins Oracle as VP of data center design
Was the director of global strategy, data center engineering
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Microsoft appoints Judson Althoff as co-CEO to work alongside Satya Nadella
AWS also announces new managing director of AWS European Sovereign Cloud subsidiary
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Microsoft employees arrested during protests against company's ties to Israel
Employees and supporters protested at company's headquarters
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Supercomputing expert Glenn Lockwood departs from Microsoft
HPC & AI leader joined from NERSC, but takes paycut to go elsewhere
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Jennifer Weitzel returns to Microsoft as CVP of engineering, procurement, and construction
After a three-year stint at Ada Infrastructure
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Microsoft cuts 6,000 jobs as it continues AI spend
Azure engineers impacted as company cuts three percent of staff
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Goodman Group hires Microsoft’s Kraig Knight as data center operations EVP
As Goodman looks to expand data center offerings
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Microsoft employees protest against contracts with Israeli military
Comes after investigation found AI models from Microsoft aided in selecting bombing targets
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Microsoft to build energy infrastructure technologies team, hiring for transmission tech director
Along with an energy tech researcher to develop "precommercial energy technologies"
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Microsoft's AI VP Luis Vargas quits to start own business
Was involved in developing Azure's AI strategy
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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Jessica Hinojosa joins Microsoft's carbon removal team from Shell
The company is the largest purchaser of carbon removal projects
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Microsoft settles with Civil Rights Department on $14.4m lawsuit over protected leave discrimination
Cloud giant alleged to discriminate against employees over parental and disability leave in California
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Google and Microsoft to lay off hundreds in cloud units
Another round of job cuts approaches
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Microsoft to invest $3.3bn in Wisconsin AI data center
Reveals it is co-funding a 250MW solar energy project
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Microsoft eyes more data centers across EMEA region
Hiring an acquisitions manager to scout potential locations
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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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Matt Renner takes charge of Google Cloud's global sales operation
He succeeds Equinix-bound Adaire Fox-Martin
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Microsoft hires Erin Henderson to head 'nuclear development acceleration' for data centers
As grids struggle to keep up with data center demand
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Azure's lead hardware architect and former Cray CTO Steve Scott joins AMD
A big win for the chip company