DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Workforce & Skills, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Oracle upscales layoffs, expected to increase restructuring costs by $700m
While chairman Larry Ellison ditches plans for stock sale
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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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Oracle cut workforce by 21,000 employees in FY2026
Revealed in annual report
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Amazon workers testify in favor of regulating data centers, claim they faced backlash at work
Employees say they are being investigated by HR and were intimidated
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Lambda hires Michel Combes as CEO, co-founder Stephen Balaban shifts to CTO role
Also appoints AT&T CEO John Donovan as chairman of the board
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Nscale pinches Oracle data center lead Sam Huckaby to head AI infrastructure build out
Huckaby will lead the neocloud's European and North America expansion
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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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Oracle begins laying off thousands of workers to fuel AI data center spend
Layoffs began yesterday
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OpenAI reorganizes leadership amid data center strategy readjustment
Company is embracing renting AI servers from cloud providers instead of building all its data center capacity
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Sharon AI appoints co-founder James Manning as CEO
Former CEO Wolf Schubert to become country manager USA
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IBM to cut thousands of jobs to focus on software segment
Cuts will occur in fourth quarter
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OVHcloud reappoints founder Octave Klaba as CEO; releases year results for 2025
Ends Benjamin Revcolevschi's time at the helm after just one year
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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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Amazon suspends employee for criticizing its ties with Israel
Software engineer emailed senior executives and posted on internal Slack channels
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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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Amazon's cloud computing business cuts hundreds of jobs
Exact number of AWS staffers laid off not provided
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Gloucester man believes cancer was caused by asbestos at data center
Worked at a data center in the UK city for 12 years
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CoolIT names Jason Waxman as CEO
COO Patrick McGinn expands role with president position
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Telehouse Canada appoints Atsushi Kubo as president and CEO
Placement effective immediately
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Atos appoints Thales' Pierre-Yves Jolivet as EVP and head of Eviden
Jolivet previously held role of VP and GM of cyber digital business at Thales
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Iron Mountain appoints Gary Aitkenhead as EVP and GM of data centers
Joins from Equinix
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Google settles $28m lawsuit over ethnicity pay disparities
Company found to have violated employment laws by paying certain minorities less
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US DOE gets a new CIO, again
Ross Graber takes over the role after Ryan Riedel leaves
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DCD Podcast - Spreading awareness of the data center industry with Carrie Goetz
An industry veteran shares her thoughts
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DOGE: NOAA cuts jobs and cancels leases for research centers
Department of Government Efficiency strikes again, plans to take down a data center
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DOGE shuts down General Services Administration technology consulting unit
Mark Cuban offers support and investmet
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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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AWS employee held hostage by Hamas released, CEO Jassy "incredibly relieved"
CEO speaks out after maintaining silence through hostage period