Kabui Mwangi

Cloud computing: Experts poke holes into President Ruto’s 1GW data centre

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Cloud computing: Experts poke holes into President Ruto’s 1GW data centre

President William Ruto’s announcement that Kenya will begin constructing a one Gigawatt (1GW)-capacity data centre in Naivasha has stirred debate within expert circles around the viability of the project. Without revealing the construction cost in his post on X last week, Dr Ruto indicated that the investment would be powered by green energy and that …

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Telkom, Jamii, Zuku beat Safaricom on fixed internet speeds

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Telkom, Jamii, Zuku beat Safaricom on fixed internet speeds

Telkom, Jamii Telecommunications Limited (JTL)-owned Faiba and Wananchi Group-owned Zuku networks recorded the best download and upload speeds on their fixed internet offerings over the 12 months to March 2024, beating market leader Safaricom. A new report by French network-testing firm nPerf shows that Telkom’s fixed internet hit an average of 33.04 megabits per second …

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