Microsoft lays off <1% of staff, Meta asks managers who to fire, Google slows hiring
As hyperscalers brace for a global economic slowdown
News - The Management & Operations Channel, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
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Microsoft's VP of global data center construction joins Meta/Facebook
A week after Azure's corporate VP leaves the company
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Oracle considers $1bn in cost cuts, thousands of layoffs
Just as it ramps up TikTok hosting and finishes Cerner acquisition
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Air Force to build out Cloud One platform as JWCC drags on
After what happened to JEDI, it pays not to rely too heavily on JWCC
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Microsoft Azure UK stops accepting new customers for some services, due to supply shortages
Following reports of server shortages across global Microsoft data centers
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"Equipment failure" causes huge telecoms outage in Japan, impacting 39 million mobile lines
Also impacting ATMs and deliveries
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Microsoft Azure data centers operating "with limited server capacity" amid cloud boom and supply shortage
More than two dozen facilities operating in the yellow zone
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Global chip fab equipment spending expected to hit a record $109bn this year
But it's still not enough to solve the chip shortage crisis
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British Columbia Internet outage caused by beaver
Dam Internet connection
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DOE's NNSA builds Lawrence Livermore exascale facility for El Capitan supercomputer
Facility is capable of supporting 85MW
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More than 100 days into Ukraine war, IBM winds down Russia business
Pausing sales cost it $300m
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Google subcontractor accused of underpaying workers
Artech may be systematically skimming wages
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Lendlease names Sunita Bottse head of data centers in Asia
Lendlease Data Centre Partners is building a data center in Japan
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NERSC's Glenn Lockwood joins Microsoft, says future of supercomputing lies in the cloud
"My guess is that all the 50-60MW data centers being built for the exascale supercomputers will be the last of their kind"
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Meta/Facebook to use dedicated Microsoft Azure cluster for AI supercomputing
Opting to use the cloud, rather than internally building it
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ServiceNow bought a year's worth of data center hardware in case of supply chain issues
Avoid delays by buying in bulk
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Human rights groups call on AWS to stop hosting massive DHS biometric surveillance system
Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) will surveil more than 270 million people
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General Dynamics IT awarded $89.5m HPC contract for the EPA
Will also help with modeling and scientific study
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Tesla sues former engineer for alleged technology theft of Project Dojo supercomputer
Musk & Co. claim he took cooling tech from the car company
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Ousted Arm China CEO refuses to go after being fired, again
It's not clear if SoftBank knows how to get rid of him
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DCD Magazine issue 44 out now: A lost history of computing risks being forgotten
Plus understanding the future of data centers in Northern Virginia, Dublin, and Singapore
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UK's Brexit border IT system hit by major outage, adding to huge delays and queues
And it plans to bring a separate system offline for maintenance, even though it might be needed during the outage
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Microsoft tests AI in space with HPE, partners with Thales Alenia and Ball Aerospace
On-orbit computing takes off
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Huawei's once-detained CFO Meng Wanzhou to chair company board
For a six month stint