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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says

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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says

www.tomshardware.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure
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“We would need to switch off half the country for the data center to be powered."
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    This seems like an outrage optimized article and headline. I would expect them to utilize and build power sources in this context,i.e. not compete with citizen power and potentially cheapen electricity.

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      Do you see any credible evidence of that? Above anything, corporations get high off their own farts when they do anything good-will adjacent. If they planned on meeting the demand for power, a huge corporate production would be made of it.

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        https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/microsofts-african-data-center-falters-payment-demands-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-05-10/

        Kenya was supposed to pay for geothermal capacity and didn’t. Not suck off them corpos.

        Bad publicity is bad for corpos. Cartoonishly evil is usually propaganda.

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