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."
  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Anyone who would decide to do this is evil. Like, orphan crushing machine evil.

    If Microsoft wants to build that excess capacity, that would be reasonable. If Microsoft wanted to finance that excess capacity so Kenya could build it, that would also be reasonable. This is fucked up.