Consulting and management firm Essor Services will partner with Costa Rican clean energy company Kaia Energy to build a data center in Burkina Faso powered by a waste-to-energy plant.
In a recent LinkedIn post, Austin VanCampen, founder and president at Kaia Energy, said: ““We will be humbly building [the] needed power and data infrastructure to support this transition. All powered by carbon-negative waste-to-energy. The world will know Burkina Faso, Africa, as one of the most progressive countries on any content.”
The project will entail the installation of a power plant that will convert household waste into electricity for a new data center facility.
It is expected the plant will produce around 12MW of electricity, according to a report from Matin Libre.
Other specifications of the project have not yet been shared.
Construction will start in October this year and is scheduled for completion in November 2025. But Kaia Energy added it will work to reduce the timeline, so operations can begin before November.
Kaia Energy specializes in creating turnkey solutions for turning waste into energy for factories, data rendering, asset mining, or selling back to the grid.
Last year in March, Orange announced plans to deploy solar panels at its data center in Burkina Faso.
