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I’ve heard from a friend who works at Microsoft that due to energy crisis in Europe plus their data locality laws, Microsoft is indeed running short on datacenter capacity there and can’t do anything about it no matter how much they are willing to spend.

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Very interesting. As mentioned in another post, I am sure they are not trying to screw us or anybody else up. Is after all for sure not in their interest. But not flagging that to users I do not get at all. I would expect to get at least a warning email a week about that, plus warning in the dashboard, but there was literally nothing.

as I’ve heard it actually affects much more than Azure, also all their cloud-based productivity suite.

Couldn't even put up their own solar panels?

lol, what?

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