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"Kenyan President William Ruto put the scale of the project's power requirements into clear terms at a recent state event in Nairobi, saying the country would need to "switch off half the country" to keep the facility running. (...) President Ruto isn’t exaggerating about shutting off half the country’s power. Kenya’s total installed electricity capacity sits between 3,000 and 3,200 megawatts, and peak demand reached a record 2,444 megawatts in January, according to data from KenGen, the country’s government-owned electricity producer. The full 1 gigawatt build would therefore have consumed roughly a third of the country’s total capacity" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsofts-1-billion-kenya-data-center-stalls-over-disagreements-on-power-capacity