{"id":1007394,"date":"2026-05-11T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007394"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:31:09","slug":"microsofts-african-data-center-falters-on-payment-demands-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/microsofts-african-data-center-falters-on-payment-demands-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s African data center falters on payment demands: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Microsoft data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company&#8217;s request for guaranteed payments, Bloomberg News reported \u200con Sunday \u2060citing \u2060people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, Microsoft partnered with UAE-based AI firm G42 to invest $1 billion in a data center in Kenya as part of its efforts to expand cloud-computing services in East Africa. The project was announced during Kenyan President William Ruto&#8217;s state visit to Washington under the \u2060Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Microsoft data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company&#8217;s request for guaranteed payments, Bloomberg News reported \u200con Sunday \u2060citing \u2060people familiar with the matter. In May 2024, Microsoft partnered with UAE-based AI firm G42 to invest $1 billion in a data center in Kenya as part of its efforts to expand cloud-computing services in East Africa. The project was announced during Kenyan President William Ruto&#8217;s state visit to Washington under the \u2060Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007415,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007394\/revisions\/1007415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}