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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Well yeah, but it's tech, there's virtually no need to work locally unless you're actually working in the datacenter (which there won't be a ton of on-site personnel required for). If you're doing support delivery, you are either working from home or flying to a customer unless you live near a campus location.
Allegedly, there wasn't enough grid capacity out west for a Canadian regional datacenter for M365/Azure.  |
This is our biggest issue as latency to Toronto Canada Central MS Azure is too high and Oracle doesn't like this. There is a connection hub in Vancouver but it's not the same as a datacenter region.
Regarding staffing, that is a good point, as I don't know how many support staff this will actually mean for local employment. I recall from the Facebook outage this year, their datacenters were almost empty of staff because of Covid and they had to physically bust down the stores to fix their routers.