Microsoft / G42 Olkaria Geothermal AI Campus
AI dedicatedOperated by G42 · Olkaria, Nakuru, KE2 srcupdated 5d ago
The Microsoft/G42 geothermal-powered campus at Olkaria, billed at 100MW rising to 1GW and reported as a US$1bn investment, has been paused. President William Ruto is quoted saying 'to switch on that one data centre, we would need to shut off power for half the country'; Kenya's grid cannot support the load. No restart date has been given.
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Ownership chain (G42)
- L0 (entity)G42holdingAE
- L1 (top)Mubadala Investment CompanygovtAEsrc ↗
UBO disclosed: Royal Group / Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed
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Power
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- geothermal
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