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My team very nearly had this happen to us.

We pushed back on it very, very, very hard, and finally convinced "IT" to not turn off our big Linux server running JupyterHub. We actually ended up using Databricks (PySpark, Delta Lake, hosted MLFlow) quite a bit for various purposes, and were happy to have it available.

But the thought of forcing us into it as our only computing platform was a spine-chilling nightmare. Something that only a person who has no idea what data analysts and data scientists actually do all day would decide to do.