Alistair Speirs
@alspeirs.bsky.social
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
new open source hardware projects from Microsoft announced at OCP: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...
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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October 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
new open source hardware projects from Microsoft announced at OCP: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...
building in security at every layer of the stack starts at the nanometer scale: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...
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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August 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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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A new REALLY COOL role in our division at Microsoft - Principal Technical Program Manager!
🥹 Collab with me (benefit or drawback, depending on how you look at it)
✨ Work on cutting-edge AI dev tools
👻 Craft ways to synthesize feedback
🧙♀️ Role: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
🥹 Collab with me (benefit or drawback, depending on how you look at it)
✨ Work on cutting-edge AI dev tools
👻 Craft ways to synthesize feedback
🧙♀️ Role: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
August 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A new REALLY COOL role in our division at Microsoft - Principal Technical Program Manager!
🥹 Collab with me (benefit or drawback, depending on how you look at it)
✨ Work on cutting-edge AI dev tools
👻 Craft ways to synthesize feedback
🧙♀️ Role: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
🥹 Collab with me (benefit or drawback, depending on how you look at it)
✨ Work on cutting-edge AI dev tools
👻 Craft ways to synthesize feedback
🧙♀️ Role: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Exciting to see Magne, a new L2 quantum system from Microsoft Quantum and Atom Computing for QuNorth!
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EIFO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Acquire the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer - Novo Nordisk Fonden
novonordiskfonden.dk
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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it’s not a trip to Amsterdam without fries and satay sauce! #microsoft #aitour
June 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
it’s not a trip to Amsterdam without fries and satay sauce! #microsoft #aitour
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.
June 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
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...
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...
blogs.microsoft.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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...
Malaysia West Azure datacenter region is now GA! news.microsoft.com/source/asia/...
Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Malaysia, empowering more Malaysian organizations to accelerate AI innovation - Source Asia
news.microsoft.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Malaysia West Azure datacenter region is now GA! news.microsoft.com/source/asia/...
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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.
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.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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.
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.
Woohoo - our new agentic scientific computing R&D platform finally breaks cover. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/t...
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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May 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Woohoo - our new agentic scientific computing R&D platform finally breaks cover. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/t...
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Report: Seattle Still Absolute Hellhole: tinyurl.com/bdd7nkf8
May 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Report: Seattle Still Absolute Hellhole: tinyurl.com/bdd7nkf8
darn it, we should have gone with topsups instead of topo-conductors for Majorana 1.
May 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
darn it, we should have gone with topsups instead of topo-conductors for Majorana 1.
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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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April 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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
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.
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OpenAI transforms AI model development with Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Customer Stories
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April 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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.
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finally we are asking the tough questions about #genAI… velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
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...
velvetshark.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
finally we are asking the tough questions about #genAI… velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
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Microsoft Admits Its AI Is Just Clippy on Shrooms: tinyurl.com/4s3rbxzb
April 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Microsoft Admits Its AI Is Just Clippy on Shrooms: tinyurl.com/4s3rbxzb
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The Deployment of Hollow Core Fiber HCF in Azures Network by Charlotte Forster #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-net...
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,...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Deployment of Hollow Core Fiber HCF in Azures Network by Charlotte Forster #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-net...
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...
Data Centers: The Secret to Connectivity
YouTube video by Microsoft
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March 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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...
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...
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.
azure.microsoft.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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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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.
March 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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.
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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February 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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...
Two turkeys don't make an eagle. www.theinformation.com/briefings/sa...
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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February 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Two turkeys don't make an eagle. www.theinformation.com/briefings/sa...
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Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG
Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG
February 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG
Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG