> > data centres in Nigeria ... the electrical supply is not very reliable > Electrical supply in Cape Town has had issues too: https://www.google.com/search?q

> > data centres in Nigeria ... the electrical supply is not very reliable > Electrical supply in Cape Town has had issues too: https://www.google.com/search?q=cape+town+load+shedding https://www.google.com/search?q=cape+town+load+shedding Oh wow, one day of residential load shedding in the past year. Nigeria had a country-wide electrical outage this year: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/254308-updated-nigeria-experiences-total-power-outage-across-country.html https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/254308-updated... A few years ago, I was somewhat involved with some data centres in Nigeria, which ran on generators 2-3 times a day for at last an hour each time, every day, for more than a year, due to the electrical grid in the city (Lagos) going down. The locals indicated that this was normal (e.g. had been like this for years). Ghana has much more reliable electricity than Nigeria. A few more articles: http://dailypost.ng/2018/07/24/nigeria-may-not-stable-power-next-5-years-electricity-distributors/ http://dailypost.ng/2018/07/24/nigeria-may-not-stable-power-... https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-challenge-keeping-nigerias-lights/ https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-challenge-keepi... "To cope with the frequent blackouts and lack of access, a quarter of Nigerians relied on generators in 2016" South Africa's electricity generation (Eskom) has problems, but nothing like Nigeria's (yet).