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
2026-05-12 · r/technology
Microsoft wanted to build a $1 billion AI data center in Kenya, only to discover it would need enough power to literally shut off half the country. Nothing says 'sustainable AI future' like asking a developing nation to choose between electricity for its citizens or cooling your GPU clusters. The project is now stalled because apparently nobody at Microsoft checked if Kenya had a spare power grid lying around.