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."
  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    Indeed. Or charge them fees for their power consumption that would pay for the construction of additional generating capacity. This is how it is with any new expansion of industrial demand, there’s going to be a need to build up the infrastructure to match. This is normally considered a good thing when you manage it properly.