Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsofts-1-billion-kenya-data-center-stalls-over-disagreements-on-power-capacityOpen linkView original on lemmy.ca
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That is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
-Microsoft
just require microsoft to also install all the renewable energy capabilities that they intend to use then
the AI company is gonna crash within a few years and the country has got free energy supplies :)
Last i checked, a government could prevent a company from doing something like this
Which is what they just did. Literally first paragraph.
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.
So maybe don't build it then? Or i dunno maybe MS can build a country's infrastructure instead? That seems like a better use of slop money
Microshaft doing what they do best.