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by numbsafari 1900 days ago
Looking at the top 3 US Public Cloud providers, Microsoft has a lot to be proud of [1]. I think Microsoft's old-line enterprise/government software business has given them a sales lead over the others, but they've also made big capital investments here in local infrastructure.

I think there's a massive, missed opportunity to build renewable-resource powered data centers to drive the compute tasks needed elsewhere, investing in local talent and infrastructure at the same time.

[1] https://twitter.com/numbsafari/status/1357404669123981314