Alistair Speirs

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

79 Followers 221 Following 50 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago
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GitHub - microsoft/aitour26-resource-center Contribute to microsoft/aitour26-resource-center development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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1 month ago

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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1 month ago

its a real sample with a logo printed on it.

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3 months ago
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You’ll have to come back tomorrow and check out the insides!

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3 months ago
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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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4 months ago
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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.

new open source hardware projects from Microsoft announced at OCP: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...

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5 months ago

I haven’t seen a scenario where v2 isn’t cheaper though.

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6 months ago
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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.

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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7 months ago
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EIFO and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Acquire the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer - Novo Nordisk Fonden

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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8 months ago

everything else is just somebody else’s margin.

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8 months ago
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it’s not a trip to Amsterdam without fries and satay sauce! #microsoft #aitour

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8 months ago
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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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9 months ago
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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...

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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9 months ago
Microsoft opens its first cloud region in Indonesia to unlock the new AI economy – Indonesia News CenterIkon Penolakan Pilihan Privasi Anda

… and we snuck Indonesia Central out last month, but it is now officially official! news.microsoft.com/id-id/2025/0...

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9 months ago
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Microsoft announces its first cloud region in Malaysia, empowering more Malaysian organizations to accelerate AI innovation - Source Asia

Malaysia West Azure datacenter region is now GA! news.microsoft.com/source/asia/...

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9 months ago
US East 2 datacenter aerial picture

The building on the right is one of the “Ballard” designs. Here is a shot of one of the US East 2 DC regions, where you can see them lined up.

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9 months ago
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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.

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9 months ago
Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery | Microsoft Azure Blog Learn more about the new enterprise agentic platform, , accelerating research and development

Woohoo - our new agentic scientific computing R&D platform finally breaks cover. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/t...

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9 months ago

here we go! #msbuild perfect Seattle weather for a developer conference… no distractions!

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10 months ago
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

Report: Seattle Still Absolute Hellhole: tinyurl.com/bdd7nkf8

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10 months ago
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darn it, we should have gone with topsups instead of topo-conductors for Majorana 1.

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10 months ago
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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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10 months ago
OpenAI transforms AI model development with Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Customer Stories

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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11 months ago
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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...

finally we are asking the tough questions about #genAI… velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

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11 months ago
Spiral-pupiled Clippy at center of kaleidoscopic rainbow spiral

Microsoft Admits Its AI Is Just Clippy on Shrooms: tinyurl.com/4s3rbxzb

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11 months ago
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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,...

The Deployment of Hollow Core Fiber HCF in Azures Network by Charlotte Forster #Azure techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-net...

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11 months ago
QBasic Gorillas
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11 months ago
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Data Centers: The Secret to Connectivity YouTube video by Microsoft

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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11 months ago

i guess we will only know after the conference!

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