Microsoft has has software development centers in Kenya and Nigeria for a couple years now. [1] I'm glad to see other western tech companies moving into sub-Saharan Africa. Hope it's a trend - at MSFT we had some success there!
Looking at the top 3 US Public Cloud providers, Microsoft has a lot to be proud of [1]. I think Microsoft's old-line enterprise/government software business has given them a sales lead over the others, but they've also made big capital investments here in local infrastructure.
I think there's a massive, missed opportunity to build renewable-resource powered data centers to drive the compute tasks needed elsewhere, investing in local talent and infrastructure at the same time.
I think there's a massive, missed opportunity to build renewable-resource powered data centers to drive the compute tasks needed elsewhere, investing in local talent and infrastructure at the same time.
[1] https://twitter.com/numbsafari/status/1357404669123981314