'We would need to shut off power for half the country': Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice

‘We would need to shut off power for half the country’: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice

Plans to build potentially the biggest, most expensive data centre in East Africa have stalled. Sources close to the matter say that talks between the Kenyan government and Microsoft have broken down due to disagreements over annual payments. Microsoft and its partners had wanted the Kenyan government to agree to pay annually for capacity, but…

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Framework says DDR5 memory costs ‘remain fairly stable’ but ‘on SSDs, the pricing story is unfortunately not as positive’ as it raises prices again

Modular laptop company Framework has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that memory costs from suppliers have reportedly remained steady over the past few months. The bad news is that it’s all outta storage and has to buy new stuff at inflated prices. “We’ve seen memory costs on DDR5 suppliers…

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