Google Cloud users will soon be able to pay for cloud services with crypto following a partnership between Google Cloud and crypto giant Coinbase.

This is coming just after the tech company announced it is building its first cloud region in Africa, in South Africa.

Crypto payments for Google cloud will be available in early 2023, but it will not be available to all Cloud customers at once. The payment feature will be first available to only a subset of Google cloud customers and then available to all the others over time.

There's a slim chance however that any of Google Cloud’s African clients will be included in the group of users who will experience the cryptocurrency payment platform for the first time. Major clients like Safaricom and MTN, e-commerce startups like Takealot and Konga, Kenya’s Twiga Foods, and others, won’t be able to use the crypto payment integration.

Out of these companies, only  MTN, has shown a particularly keen interest in Web3 or cryptocurrencies by purchasing land in the metaverse. This may be because the majority of African governments have expressed their disapproval of cryptocurrencies and punished those who break their laws prohibiting them.