Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoMicrosoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government sayswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1485cross-posted to: world@quokk.aupcmasterrace@lemmy.world
arrow-up1485external-linkMicrosoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government sayswww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square44fedilinkcross-posted to: world@quokk.aupcmasterrace@lemmy.world
minus-squareCrt_static@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoDo 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.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agohttps://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.
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.
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.