There's already water shortages in this area due to lack of infrastructure so not sure where water will be sources for a whole smart city (maybe smart without water)
Eskom is like that old uncle that hears something and jump on the bandwagon. In 10 years' time Eskom will say they want to sell excess electricity to AI data centers.
For that money they could built a brand new nuclear power plant similar to the one in Barakah UAE (obviously Eskom would estimate that to cost R10 Gazillion and then overrun the budget by R1000bn)
A whole article just for a mini series? The rest of the article talks about cost cutting which probably means more content cutting or am I missing something?