Kenyan President says to power Microsoft’s datacenter ‘we would need to switch off power for half the country’, adds ‘point is …’
Kenyan President William Ruto recently said that powering Microsoft’s upcoming data centre may require more electricity than the entire country can spare. “We would need to switch off half the country for the data centre to be powered,” Ruto said at a recent state event in Nairobi. According to a report by Bloomberg, the ambitious $1 billion project — which was meant to bring major cloud computing capacity to East Africa — has been delayed after talks between Microsoft, its partner G42, and the Kenyan government broke down over money and power. While the project is not dead, officials say, its future remains uncertain.
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