Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested
A major Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government …
They can't get guaranteed payments coz we already have a National Data Center (at Konza) & will be expanding when the time is right. It's Tier III fine, but it'll do. And the objective for it's founding was this exactly...to cut back on costs. [image]
Microsoft and G42 were planning to build a data center in Kenya, but it wanted the Kenyan government to guarantee it would pay for a certain amount of cloud capacity annually. — When the Kenyan government refused, Microsoft pulled the project. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...