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Fiscal constitution of Kenya’s digital future
Technology governance, properly understood, is fiscal governance. It asks the oldest questions of public finance, who pays, who benefits and who decides, about the newest machinery of our lives.
In May this year the President William Ruto announced that the billion dollar data centre planned by Microsoft and G42 at Olkaria, Naivasha couldn’t proceed as designed, because turning it on would have meant switching off power to a large part of the country.
The first phase alone was to draw 100 megawatts from a grid whose peak demand already presses against its installed capacity.
