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Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/microsoft-water-ai-data-centers.htm…

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Sorry, Peter Griffin (being interviewed on RNZ by Kathryn Ryan on NineToNoon right now), you're way way too uncritical of US BigTech & (especially) Microsoft's leadership... that you're visiting them in the US is also suspicious.

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Trump Lays Out His 'Worst Case' Scenario in Iran (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-iran-leaders.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p8#a260304p8

This makes me think about the ‘good old days’ of Mini MSFT. We need a new MiniMSFT. Maybe a MacroMSFT? MicroMSFT? Someone to spill the corporate gossip with insights and conjecture.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/mary-jo-foley-what-the-heck-is-goin…

Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?
In her debut column for GeekWire, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley digs into the recent wave of reorgs, hiring freezes, and leadership shakeups in Redmond, and asks whether it's business as usual or something bigger.

Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.

Big tech leaders opine on the future of AI
Big tech leaders have been opining this week, on the future of AI, taking on the bubble talk, resource constraints and opportunities.

Political leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week…

World leaders gather in Davos with Trump’s Greenland threats set to dominate forum
Influential meeting takes place as Europe scrambles to respond to Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats

Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/microsoft-copilot-ai-suleyman.html

Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models
Microsoft is doubling down on its superintelligence group to build models, while consolidating engineering efforts for its Copilot assistants.

@why_not@mastodon.social ich finde die vorstellung, dass, sagen wir 33,34% der Bevölkerung [Deutschlands|EU|Europas|des Westens|der Industrienationen|der demokratidchen Staaten|des globalen Nordens] bereit sein könnte wegen was-auch-immer Alphabet, Amazon und Microsoft zu boykottieren bizarr. Teilweise unmöglich. Alphabet bietet DNS 8.8.8.8 und 8.8.4.4 und das pandemie-traceing-network an. https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116034466199737167