🇯🇵 Japanese, 10 October 2026, data center
Rockefeller Foundation-backed project to test selling computing power to power African villages
A new project aims to sell computing power to power African villages, potentially lowering electricity costs.
The project, called Emergent Grid, is backed by the Rockefeller Foundation and aims to sell computing power to power African villages, potentially lowering electricity costs.
The project works by selling computing power to companies, which then use that power to run their data centers, and the excess power is sold back to the village at a lower cost.
The project is a response to the growing concern about the environmental impact of data centers, which are often located in areas with high electricity costs.