Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans

Supermicro shares slumped 15 percent in after-hours trading as the company warned next week’s quarterly results will see it miss forecast revenue by up to $1.5 billion. The server-maker on Tuesday revealed its previous guidance that its Q3 revenue would fall between $5.0 billion and $6.0 billion was wrong and will instead come …

[Doctor Syntax]

Is anyone surprised that corporations are going to stop buying stuff with huge and unpredictable tariffs.

Perhaps US corporations should look at building data centres in Canada.

[Grindslow_knoll]

There was a spike in Canada datacentre usage when the Canadian govt made it mandatory for education (incl university) services to be hosted on sovereign datacenters, but that was eroding in the last 2 years. In principle, you were not allowed to use e.g. Google drive, but Onedrive/Sharepoint was okay if hosted in Canada (likely Toronto).

Canada is also commercializing their scientific HPC centres (Compute Canada/Digital Alliance), renting out spare capacity, iow compute as a service.

[mevets]

alas poor, uh, supermicro

Our laws have already welcomed these new fancy punch card readers and storage cupboards, so I hope we can help.

The new future is to get your business as far from the boundary of lunacy as you can settle, and work your angle from there.