Nairobi, Kenya – July 2025 — The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has officially commissioned its first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to power a modular data center in Nairobi, marking a major milestone in the country's clean energy transition. First reported by the Citizen, the system, which has a capacity of 1. Digital Resilience: The BESS. Kenya's plans to host a $1 billion data centre backed by Microsoft and UAE-based G42 have stalled, after President William Ruto said the country lacks sufficient power capacity to support the project. [Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images] Kenya has suspended plans. Enterprises adopt hybrid IT setups to improve agility and data localization. Telecom operators and banks seek high-performance infrastructure to support core applications. Rising e-governance adoption.
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