A Microsoft data center site in ‌East Africa has been ‌delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan ​government over the company’s request for guaranteed payments, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday citing ‌people familiar ⁠with the matter. In 2024, Microsoft partnered with ⁠UAE-based AI firm G42 to invest $1 billion in a ​data center ​in Kenya ​as part ‌of its efforts to expand cloud-computing services in East Africa. Microsoft and G42 asked the Kenyan government to commit to ‌paying for a ​certain amount of ​capacity ​annually, but the talks ‌broke down when ​it couldn’t ​provide the guarantees at the level Microsoft requested, the ​Bloomberg ‌report said.