• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    If microslop has 1 billion to build a datacenter in Kenya, they can take a fraction of a percent of that budget and slap enough solar panels on it to generate all the electricity they would ever need. It’s fucking Kenya.

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      19 hours ago

      Literally the thing I cannot understand. They could just do their own electricity and even share back.

      • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 hours ago

        Then they have to pay for it, come on, you can’t expect a fortune 500 company to pay for their own infrastructure, it’s preposterous. It only makes sense that Kenya should just bow in reverence to Microsoft, in exchange for the privilege of giving them all the electrons they can pump out.

        Can you imagine such a world, egads