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News & Current Events May 13, 2026 at 8:34 AM

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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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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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
“We would need to switch off half the country for the data center to be powered."

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Plastic-Fox0293 4 hr ago +1
Take the money and then give a bunch of reasons why you can't do the thing they want. Corporations love greasy betrayals and corruption. 
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thecarbonkid 4 hr ago +1
There's no shortage of "sign the deal now and worry about the implementation later" In the Western world.
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coconut_dot_jpg 4 hr ago +1
This is it We're finally hitting the ceiling of what the technology can do with what infrastructure we have available For the longest time we've already known we wouldn't be able to support nearly anywhere close to what's required to make a net positive return on all the investments into various AI ventures. Excuse me while I play my fiddle as Rome collapses
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Thin-Usual-4359 4 hr ago +1
I hope this madness stops soon we even have no clue how harmful all these data centers are in terms of environment etc. 
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Beat_Saber_Music 3 hr ago +1
Rome fell because of civil wars and an unpaid army led by Odoacer, and then from being invaded by Eastern Roman Empire
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Pretend_Ad2075 3 hr ago +1
Aksuahlly  The exact fall of Rome is still debated today so anyone who says Rome fell because is sharing an opinion not a fact. 
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EltonBeans 3 hr ago +1
The Roman empire didn't fall overnight. It happened over a long time. The system started to rot from within. Incompetent leadership, corruption etc. Civil unrest as well as invading armies are a result of that decay, not the cause.
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Pretend_Ad2075 3 hr ago +1
Yeah what about the eastern Roman Empire 
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Beat_Saber_Music 3 hr ago +1
Rome's fall from my reading of its history was because it kept having civil wars. Literally most of the issues can be tied to a lack of political stability. -tribes not being integrated? Because the Romans were too busy waging civil wars to focus on integrating them, and warring factions kept giving them more power in exchange for helping their side win the civil war (see North Africa being lost because one side of a Roman civil war helped the Vandals lacking a fleet cross the sea so they would fight the rival faction of the civil war) -Germanic invasions? Because Rome lacked the ability to crush any strong Germanic tribes when it was too busy fighting civil war. During times of peace the German frontier was no issue because Rome could just launch an invasion to crush a growing German confederation -Economic troubles? Quite hard to build up the economy when you have massive expenses from a civil war or rebellions Had Rome possessed a more stable political structure, it would've lasted much longer.
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Pretend_Ad2075 3 hr ago +1
Ok so which rome fell and what year. What about the eastern Roman Empire 
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Beat_Saber_Music 3 hr ago +1
Western Rome had its dynasty fall to Odoacer's military coup, and Italy fell to the Eastern Roman conquest. The Eastern Romans fell also to civil wars, plus the 4th crusade breaking the state. Civil wars left it divided, and 4th crusade was also in part caused by this as the crusaders sacked Constantinople because the Eastern Romans had political strife and one faction invited the crusaders in so he could gain power.
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Pretend_Ad2075 3 hr ago +1
Ok so what year did they fall?
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Fast-Satisfaction482 4 hr ago +1
"The project has not been withdrawn" and "talks continue". Microsoft certainly knew the energy situation when they started planning this, so it's probably not a shocker to MS that the power supply will take some time to implement.
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Gsantos52012 3 hr ago +1
What’s up with the title
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K_R_A_K_E_N_540 3 hr ago +1
I assume Tesla energy will come in and save the day probably.
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Bruvvimir 3 hr ago +1
The &mdash in the headline is just chef's kiss
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Evil_Eg 3 hr ago +1
Investing in bringing solar energy and water treatment to the country, as opposed to installing something that will generate profits, seems like a good balance. But hey, that's bad for MS or any foreign company operating there, until a Chinese company comes along and does that, then we'll have the USA and EU talking about unfair competition and how China is dominating Africa.
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