DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Workforce & Skills, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Matt Clifford, man behind UK's AI Growth Zones plan, joins Anthropic
Plans to stay on at ARIA is "a clear conflict of interest," MP says
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Former OpenAI Stargate exec Shamez Hemani joins Anthropic after brief Meta Compute stint
Was one of a group of departures to Meta's compute team
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Uday Ruddarraju named OpenAI's CTO of Compute
Former xAI staffer celebrates one-year anniversary at company
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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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Former architect for Google's Global Internet Edge & CDN network infrastructure joins SpaceX-xAI
Paul Schultz joins the Starlink company ahead of IPO
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Meta's Andrew Rudersdorf joins Anthropic's data center energy team
As Anthropic expands, and Meta contracts
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Kao Data appoints Spencer Lamb as CEO
Company to focus on UK data center buildout
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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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Mike Brinker becomes latest Googler to join Anthropic's data center team
As generative AI business expands its data center ambitions
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Fermi's ousted CEO fights for return, company claims he is "attempting to fill the board with his acolytes to force a sale"
Toby Neugebauer remains the largest shareholder, but has lost the support of the second largest shareholder in messy spat
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Anthropic hiring for analyst to assess geopolitical risks and nation-state threats to staff, offices, and data centers
Just don't ask the Department of Defense
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Sana Ouji leaves Google for Anthropic's new energy team, to "responsibly and rapidly scale an ambitious data center portfolio"
Joining Ariel Horowitz and Tim Hughes, and a bunch of ex-Googlers
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Anant Nivarti rejoins Tesla to lead silicon engineering, including AI6 and Dojo 3
After Dojo team was effectively disbanded, now it's back and targeting space
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Equinix's CTO Justin Dustzadeh departs
Has yet to announce his next role
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Oracle plans to again cut thousands of jobs to free up AI data center cash flow
To feed OpenAI buildout, company will slash staff
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Musk's xAI sees spate of senior departures, including co-founders
After merging with SpaceX, xAI faces an Xodus
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Amazon confirms 16,000 layoffs, including at AWS
After accidentally revealing the job cuts in an email
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Amazon plans 14,000 more job cuts, including across AWS cloud division
Following similar cuts last October
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Google's Maud Texier joins Octopus Energy as global VP of data centers
Hyperscaler's EMEA energy head makes shift to utility
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Equinix's Jeremy Mickler joins OpenAI as land development lead
Was the design director at the colocation giant
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Gary Demasi joins Meta as VP of data center development, after brief stint at MGX
Demasi spent nearly 19 years at Google
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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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OpenAI tells White House that US needs 100GW of new energy per year to support AI boom
Calls to close “electron gap” with China
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Aaron Ruffin named infrastructure lead at OpenAI, joining from Avicado Construction
Previously worked at Microsoft and Jacobs
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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