Microsoft Cancels $1 Billion Ohio Data Center Projects (datacenterdynamics.com) 11
Microsoft has scrapped plans to build three data center campuses in Licking County, Ohio, in a $1 billion investment pullback, the company said. The canceled developments in New Albany, Heath, and Hebron join a growing list of Microsoft data center project cancellations across the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United Kingdom.
Microsoft will retain ownership of the land and plans to eventually develop the sites at an unspecified future date. Two properties will remain available for farming in the interim.
Microsoft will retain ownership of the land and plans to eventually develop the sites at an unspecified future date. Two properties will remain available for farming in the interim.
MICROSOFT IS LEADERLESS (Score:1)
Datacenters are being built world-round and year round. They are drive by REAL needs and fake ("AI") needs.
Microsoft lacks leadership and this is the result.
Don't blame the tariffs (yeah, Trump sucks) or the regulations (yeah the EU sucks). Just look at the ONE COMPANY THAT CAN'T COMPETE.
Microsoft sucks. And why? Because it lacks leadserhip. As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, we see they have produced NOTHING in 20 years.
Redmond - you have a new upcoming vacuum to fill.
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Good! Keep it that way! They should instead focus on fixing their glitches. Leave finding new tech to naive caffeinated snotnoses who don't mind bellying up if they get it wrong.
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Microsoft is the largest company in the world, by market capitalization. Bigger than Apple, NVIDIA, and Amazon. That's certainly the sign of a company that lacks leadership. /s
we see they have produced NOTHING in 20 years
They have produced value for their shareholders, which is all that matters to a corporation.
Reality doesn't care about your hatred for Microsoft.
with these tariffs (Score:2)
Behold the AI boom! (Score:2)
The hype of AI is like a shaken soda: very little substance and it's leaving a big mess to clean up.
"Nobody could have predicted this outcome." -- every rube that got fleeced by someone hyping AI
Promises, Promises (Score:1)
And then
Not a big deal (Score:2)
Ohio can just use regedit to bring the projects back.
I Don't Blame Them (Score:2)
With the instability and uncertainty about material and labor costs and availability due to the actions of the current regime, the risk-benefit ratio can't be calculated with any certainty.
It's not a good time to make any large investments in my opinion. Hold your cash and real estate.
Is the Great AI Bubble Poppage finally here? (Score:3)
The PE ratio charts have been throbbing so long and so hard the fling has to end somewhere. (I you like reading that sentence, you might be a perv and/or lonely.)