The State Department for ICT brought operators and cloud providers, iXAfrica, Digital Realty and Oracle among them, into a strategic forum on data centre expansion. The stated aim is a policy framework that positions Kenya as the continent’s digital hub and pulls in foreign investment in compute.
The pair announced a $1bn programme anchored on a geothermal-powered data centre campus at KenGen’s Olkaria fields, with a first phase of 100MW and an East Africa Azure cloud region to follow. It was the largest single compute commitment made to the market and set the expectation the 2026 power shortfall later collided with.
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