boogiebored comments on Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says

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[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 104 points 4 months ago (6 children)

At this point I am wondering if the decision makers at these companies are incompetent or malicious and literally don’t know what they are building and just see big number.

(it’s both)

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[–] Darnton@piefed.zip 70 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Malicious of course. They get their data centers, and they don't give a rats ass about the local population. They deliberately choose locations where local leadership is easy to bribe, like the US and other third world countries.

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

I'm from a 'third world country' and I don't wanna be grouped with the US ok? We have free healthcare

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago