Cloud computing: Experts poke holes into President Ruto’s 1GW data centre

A data centre is a large group of networked computer servers typically used by organisations for remote storage, processing or distribution of large amounts of information.

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President William Ruto’s announcement that Kenya will begin constructing a one Gigawatt (1GW)-capacity data centre in Naivasha has stirred debate within expert circles around the viability of the project.

Without revealing the construction cost in his post on X last week, Dr Ruto indicated that the investment would be powered by green energy and that it would be put up in a government partnership with global tech firms Microsoft, Eco-Cloud and the G42 investment group.

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