‘We would need to shut off power for half the country’: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice

via bloomberg.com

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Plans to build potentially the biggest, most expensive data centre in East Africa have stalled. Sources close to the matter say that talks between the Kenyan government and Microsoft have broken down due to disagreements over annual payments. Microsoft and its partners had wanted the Kenyan government to agree to pay annually for capacity, but […]

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