South Africa is pretty much the only country where this was ever going to be possible.
Perhaps Rwanda as well.
Uninterrupted power is a major challenge here on the continent.
Perhaps Rwanda as well.
Uninterrupted power is a major challenge here on the continent.
Power is no biggie - network providers have learned to live on power generators.
The main issue is that Cable, Fiber penetration is very low.
Equinix datacenters in SV are actually cheaper to run on a generator, but it's not sustainable and against regulations (except obviously in a power outage).
Because oil prices won't stay that low forever, in fact Saudi-Arabia and other OPEC members lowered the production quotas to get higher oil prices. The budgets of many countries with natural resources expect a certain price floor for oil - this especially hits Saudi-Arabia as they don't have much economy except oil and a tiny bit of Mecca tourism, but also Russia which has been hit hard by the drop in oil price and which doesn't have any kind of industry that's comparable to oil in terms of exports.
I am of the opinion that oil should really not be wasted for things that don’t require very high energy density, unlike transportation etc. But setting up a coal plant seems like a project of entirely different magnitude.
In other words, input (diesel in this case) is directly related to output (profit.)
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/IC.ELC.OUTG/rank...
Also safe and not corrupt. Can't bribe yourself out of a speeding ticket there...
They've made incredible strides.