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)

Is it really this hard to just say "no" to Microslop? You're realising that it'll hurt the country and its population (as well as the environment and by extension literally every single person on earth), why the fuck would you put you own personal wealth first?

I don't get that mindset.

Anyone who would decide to do this is evil. Like, orphan crushing machine evil.

If Microsoft wants to build that excess capacity, that would be reasonable. If Microsoft wanted to finance that excess capacity so Kenya could build it, that would also be reasonable. This is fucked up.

And if you negotiate well, Microsoft will even let you choose which half of the country?

A sacrifice the weak should be thankful to make, for Capitalism. /s

And they will probably do it too.

This is why corpos prefer dictators.

Do it like Musk and build your own generators, that harm locals. Problem solved.

Where are all the fucking brain trusts that spent the last year telling me AI data centers aren’t actually that bad and it’s just like watching YouTube?

Half the country? In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to build two data centers?

Original reporting by Bloomberg is here or here for an archive.is version.

Sounds like the talks are stalled about revenue guarantees from the Kenyan government, if demand for the data center's capacity never shows up. The power infrastructure isn't really an issue yet, since the first phase is going to be 100MW and there are plans to build geothermal plants sufficient to cover several multiples of the country's current power usage, including whatever demand comes from this data center.

Spend the offline time learning to make home made bombs and molotov's and buying weapons, the data center will be built, it's about if it'll stay up or not

Ya but only the poor half? Knowing how things will turn out in America you just have to weight the material wealth of the two sides. Which ever is more wins.

Frontier tech companies build algorithmic science experiments, release them to the public as real products that replace applications and people, which we find are not actually applications or effective trustworthy workers, then ask customers and consumers to build the applications tech firms used to create and sell, and now they want us to foot the bill on the infrastructure to let us use the dumb experiment. Tens of thousands of workers that used to transition tech R&D into real products are laid off. And politicians are bribed with billions of dollars to create or block legislation that would make tech firms responsible for and take the burden on of actually delivering a real solution to meet their hype. So what happens when people can’t make a living and recycle money back into a consumer oriented economy? A Great Depression. I guess the tech bros create their new society on the moon and Mars with the money they raided from the government coffers. What a $&!7 show.

To what end? Surely the payoff is way less than the resources it consumes. This is pure, unbridled dystopic social "terra-forming". People of the globe, unite!

Silly people. AI is bring built by and for the rich folks. Many of you may die by AI but that is a sacrifice the very wealthy are very willing to make.

This seems like an outrage optimized article and headline. I would expect them to utilize and build power sources in this context,i.e. not compete with citizen power and potentially cheapen electricity.