Microsoft President Brad Smith says the tech giant will increase its investments in metro Atlanta. Smith said last Thursday that includes plans for new data centers in Douglas and Fulton counties, and a new office space in Atlantic Yards.
Microsoft will also turn 90 acres in Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood into a zero-waste, sustainable campus. But given a history of people displaced from the historic neighborhood from other developments, like Mercedes-Benz Stadium, legacy residents in the area have their concerns.
City officials like Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tell the community that the development will not leave the Westside behind and the company has promised community benefits, like dedicating a fourth of those acres in Grove Park to affordable housing and other services, including grocery stores and mentorship programs. Microsoft expects the expansion will bring in thousands of jobs, including in construction.
"I would be the first to acknowledge that we recognize that this is an opportunity to combine good business with a good cause," Microsoft President Brad Smith told Axios.
Microsoft President Brad Smith (Photo: Microsoft)
More than 1,000 developers likely worked on rewriting code for the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack that affected many companies and U.S. government agencies, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a Sunday interview, pointing out the attack is most likely continuing.
In an interview with CBS News 60 Minutes, Smith said the supply chain attack was the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.
The U.S. federal agencies investigating the attack, which targeted Microsoft and other technology and cybersecurity companies, say it was likely a cyberespionage campaign waged by Russian hackers (see:
During an interview with 60 Minutes, Microsoft president Brad Smith discussed the severity of the SolarWinds hack. He said that it was probably the "largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen."