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talking datacenters and the weird and wonderful stuff that goes into them. Working at Microsoft in the Azure business group.... but comments and opinions my own

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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
PROTIP: not sure this isnt in the readme but you can get the new Windows Developer Configuration in one line: winget configure -f "raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft…" --accept-configuration-agreements --disable-interactivity
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 23/05/2026
Tech engineering normalized transparency (status pages, postmortems, bug disclosures) partly to encourage other industries to do the same. Decades later it’s backfired: people hear our issues but not their own industry’s, so they assume engineering is worse rather than more transparent.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We need more walkable, mixed-use datacenters. Like community gardens, people should be able to experience the joy and satisfaction of cultivating their own hardware. Big Cloud has alienated the connection people felt with their computers. Kids should know what it's like to swear at rack mount rails.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If you're the type of weirdo that thinks about converting markdown files into word documents... I made a thing, Here is a lightweight CLI and web app: alspeirs.github.io/md2word/
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md2word
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Vinicius Apolinario @vrapolinario.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
With the Microsoft #AITour in full swing and lots of people posting about it, I thought it was a good time to remind you that all content is available online: 🔗 github.com/microsoft... 💡Every single session! 💻 All decks! 🚀 All demos! Check it out! #AzOps #Azure
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GitHub - microsoft/aitour26-resource-center
Contribute to microsoft/aitour26-resource-center development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The future of #AI infrastructure is AND NOT OR 😁 Microsoft will have AI running on #MAIA200 and successors + more #Nvidia #GPUs + more #AMD GPUs + a few others things we aren’t talking about publicly yet. Exciting times to be part of thinking, planning, delivering all this.
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Andrew Jones (hpcnotes) @hpcnotes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Make time at #SC25 to visit the #ArtOfHPC exhibition - beauty and science all in one place - well worth a few minutes of your time #HPC #Supercomputing #HPCignites All these and much more …
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
new open source hardware projects from Microsoft announced at OCP: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...
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Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale | Microsoft Azure Blog
Learn how Microsoft is addressing unprecedented power density and distribution challenges within hyperscale datacenters as AI workloads scale.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
building in security at every layer of the stack starts at the nanometer scale: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
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Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems | Microsoft Azure Blog
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Learn more.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Exciting to see Magne, a new L2 quantum system from Microsoft Quantum and Atom Computing for QuNorth! novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/eifo...
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EIFO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Acquire the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer - Novo Nordisk Fonden
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
it’s not a trip to Amsterdam without fries and satay sauce! #microsoft #aitour
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Great to see satya announce the Microsoft sovereign Cloud initiative today at #AItour Amsterdam. Digital Sovereignty doesn’t need mean isolation and autarky, it means being able to participate in a digital society securely, independently and with the governance controls that you choose.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Building on the European digital commitments last month, we just announced a new European Security Program tailored to European government cybersecurity needs blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
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Microsoft launches new European Security Program
Cyber and AI threats are accelerating across Europe, affecting businesses, institutions, and communities alike. Microsoft launched the European Security Program to help governments across Europe respo...
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Malaysia West Azure datacenter region is now GA! news.microsoft.com/source/asia/...
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Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Malaysia, empowering more Malaysian organizations to accelerate AI innovation - Source Asia
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/05/2025
VEO 3 Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue. This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Woohoo - our new agentic scientific computing R&D platform finally breaks cover. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/t...
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Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery | Microsoft Azure Blog
Learn more about the new enterprise agentic platform, , accelerating research and development
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
here we go! #msbuild perfect Seattle weather for a developer conference… no distractions!
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 02/05/2025
Report: Seattle Still Absolute Hellhole: tinyurl.com/bdd7nkf8
Smiling woman wearing sunglasses holding tulips on bright sunny day at Pike Place Market, "Public Market" sign with expansive view behind of ferry crossing sparkling water and green West Seattle
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
darn it, we should have gone with topsups instead of topo-conductors for Majorana 1.
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Microsoft Mechanics @msftmechanics.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Boost your HPC workloads with Azure's HB-series VMs, offering an 8x generation-over-generation improvement in memory bandwidth powered by AMD’s custom processors, only available on Azure. Get started. youtu.be/NGuVGM6amsw #HPCinAzure #microsoftazure #hpc #microsoft #highperformancecomputing
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
very cool to see how OpenAI is using #Azure Blob Storage scaled accounts to 20x storage capacity and reliably train advanced AI models without worrying about storage or throughput. aka.ms/O-AI
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OpenAI transforms AI model development with Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Customer Stories
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
finally we are asking the tough questions about #genAI… velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 03/04/2025
Microsoft Admits Its AI Is Just Clippy on Shrooms: tinyurl.com/4s3rbxzb
Spiral-pupiled Clippy at center of kaleidoscopic rainbow spiral
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Azure Weekly @azureweekly.info · 28/03/2025
The Deployment of Hollow Core Fiber HCF in Azures Network by Charlotte Forster #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-net...
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The Deployment of Hollow Core Fiber (HCF) in Azure’s Network | Microsoft Community Hub
Co-authors: Jamie Gaudette, Frank Rey, Tony Pearson, Russell Ellis, Chris Badgley and Arsalan Saljoghei   In the evolving Cloud and AI landscape,...
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We depend on #datacenters but ever tried explaining them to the non-technical? Our new explainer - "Datacenters: The Secret to Connectivity" covers it in 2 mins to help you be a hit at parties! #azure #datacenters #microsoft #ai #copilot www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cyr...
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Data Centers: The Secret to Connectivity
YouTube video by Microsoft
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Big day for NVIDIA and a big day for Microsoft too - some strong benchmark numbers for H200 (28% over H100 based Azure VMs), GB200 now generally available on Azure, NVIDIA NIM microservices now available in Azure AI Foundry and lots more to come! #azure #nvidia azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/m...
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Microsoft and NVIDIA accelerate AI development and performance   | Microsoft Azure Blog
We are excited to share several new announcements from Microsoft and NVIDIA that further enhance our full stack collaboration. Learn more.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 10/03/2025
zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Got the awesome opportunity to tour our upcoming #azure datacenter region in Finland. In addition to being one of our most efficient designs, it will be connected to municipal heating grids in the area, helping heat 250,000 households in the area.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We're hiring! Looking for someone to join our #azure team that can help improve our customer facing quality, capacity and reliability work - I think of it as all the "ty work, that never gets a thank you" - but critical to a hyperscale cloud service jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Two turkeys don't make an eagle. www.theinformation.com/briefings/sa...
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Salesforce Picks Google For New Cloud Deal
Salesforce announced it had picked Google Cloud as a major cloud provider, in addition to Amazon Web Services, after negotiations that also encompassed Microsoft and Oracle. The deal gives Sale...
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Microsoft @microsoft.com · 19/02/2025
01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is exciting. Topological Qubits are the type of qubit you tell other qubits not to worry about. #azure #quantum news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source
Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture
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Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw.com · 19/02/2025
Here come a bunch of links on super interesting things! Thing 1: Quantum! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
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Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
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John Savill @savilltech.com · 17/02/2025
New video looking at High Performance Computing in Azure when we need to perform complex compute beyond the capabilities of a single node. youtu.be/DieXgNCTXAo #azure #cloud #microsoft #cloudcomputing #microsoftazure #azurecloud #youtubevideo #microsoftcloud #HPC #slurm
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High Performance Computing (HPC) in Azure
YouTube video by John Savill's Technical Training
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I am a creature of habit... If I see AI powered in-silico labs for drug discovery running on #azure, I gotta share - awesome work artificial.com!
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Artificial orchestrates labs and augments scientific research with Azure and Azure AI services | Microsoft Customer Stories
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Interested in keeping up with cloud platform security? Our very own @joeysnow.bsky.social is hosting a webcast tomorrow on #azure security - details here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurein...
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Navigating Azure Security: Essential Resources from Design to Implementation | Microsoft Community Hub
With cloud security risks on the rise, it’s more important than ever for you to stay on top of the latest security updates and recommendations from Azure....
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
2025 is shaping up to be a big year for Quantum! Darpa selects Microsoft for the final stage of the the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program. #azure #hpc
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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Researchers pull back the curtain on MatterGen and MatterSim, the cutting-edge tools reshaping how we design and innovate advanced materials. Explore the journey from concept to creation driving these AI-powered technologies. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
ee how our partnership with AMD gives our latest HPC VM types 7TB (yes, TB) of memory bandwidth in my latest appearance on the Microsoft Mechanics show, complete with demos:
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High Performance Computing in Azure - with Mark Russinovich
YouTube video by Microsoft Mechanics
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
cool to see a fresh take on new job opportunities that are popping up around datacenters - particularly rural areas like Central Washington. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/t...
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A.I., the Electricians and the Boom Towns of Central Washington
The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry’s new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The unforgivable crime that workplace AI has transformed how we take meeting notes and write code, but hasn’t touched expense reports and purchase orders… i can only assume a bunch of red LED flashing servers are chuckling to each other saying “suck it, meat bags”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/12/2024
Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals www.ft.com/content/e85e43d1-5ce4-45…
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Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals
OpenAI’s biggest backer buys nearly half a million GPUs this year in global race to build artificial intelligence systems
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Probably only one thing worse than being a big shaggy redhead in the Australian summer heat!
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
After spending the week with my server farm fam in Sydney, off to spend time with my farm fam!
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Winbuzzer @winbuzzer.com · 10/12/2024
Microsoft is integrating zero-water cooling systems into all new data center built after August 2024. #qi #microsoft #datacenters #cloud #azure @microsoft @azure winbuzzer.com/2024/12/10/m...
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Microsoft to Operate All Data Centers Without Water by 2026 - WinBuzzer
Microsoft has launched zero-water cooling to save millions of liters annually and reduce the environmental impact of AI data centers.
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
nice to see the new attribute-based VM selection in #Azure Compute Fleet get a callout. It isn't the sexiest feature, but trying to keep track of various VM types and versions is a mugs game...even from the inside. More info here - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
I just think they're neat meme
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#Azure is now live in New Zealand! With General Availability, the hyperscale cloud comes to the land of the long white cloud! news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2024/1...
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Al @alspeirs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fun to talk to Simone Grogan yesterday about the new Azure Extended Zone announcement for Perth, Western Australia. www.midwesttimes.com.au/business/min...
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Microsoft finds new home for Cloud services in Perth
Microsoft has promised WA businesses less painful lag as it readies to expand its services in the State by mid-2025.
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