Microsoft, every mention
11 scenes (said by Brian Janous), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year anyone Shayle Kann 48Bilal Khashid 19Brian Janous 17Stephen Lacey 10Andreas Apley 7Laurent Bueneau 5Shanu Matthew 4Seyed Madaeni 4Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros 4Andy Lubershane 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
What comes after the data center backlash?
- ▶ 5:34 Brian Janous Microsoft probably has close to a gigawatt of data centers in Quincy Washington. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:45 Brian Janous Something we, we have to navigate as a, as an early stage developer that, you know, you wouldn't if you're Google or Microsoft.
- ▶ 35:08 Brian Janous We did this in, gosh, uh, it was probably twenty-sixteen at Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:29 Brian Janous And Microsoft Research picked it up, and they're like, yeah, we should do that.
Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
- ▶ 5:25 Brian Janous Yeah, I mean, I, I remember when I first joined Microsoft, and, uh, it was actually right about this time, 2011, um, it, it still wasn't even clear to me why that job existed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:06 Brian Janous Like, no one's going to ever think about it that much.
- ▶ 7:37 Brian Janous Um, cause I mean, keep in mind, like Microsoft and Meta, you know, they're not Equinix, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Brian Janous That makes demand planning pretty tricky, because even if you have extraordinarily high conviction, as we did in the early twenty-tens, that the cloud market was going to be very large, we did not have incredible conviction on exactly what…
Under the hood of data center power demand
- ▶ 9:51 Brian Janous So if you go on to AWS, you go on to Azure, and you say, I want to stand up an application, you're going to have an option to, to select a region, and it'll be called US East or US West too.
- ▶ 10:37 Brian Janous Everyone was launching some of their early cloud regions, and then over time, you know, Microsoft, Amazon, Google all have dozens of regions around the world, but that dozens of regions consists of hundreds of individual data centers.
- ▶ 29:00 Brian Janous I still remember my very first day at Microsoft.