Nairobi, Aug. 17 -- Greek multinational Amaco Energy Group plans to build a $1.5 billion (Sh194 billion) artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in Mombasa to tap East Africa's growing demand for computing infrastructure.

Amaco CEO Theodore Theodoropoulos is in Kenya for talks with government officials for approval of the project, which is expected to combine a large data-centre facility with an independent power-generation system.

The company said the planned facility is an independently powered centre that will not rely on Kenya's electricity grid.

It comes amid growing interest in Kenya as a location for multinationals to set up data centre infrastructure, driven by rising demand for cloud computing, AI, digital finance, and other ...