The paradox of pressure, and learnings for Africa
When the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refused to support military uses such as autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, the move was meant to hurt the company.…
Ghana to host Africa Hyperscalers AI infrastructure breakfast
Senior policymakers, regulators, telecom operators, financial institutions, and digital infrastructure providers will gather in Accra on May 6, 2026, for a closed-door executive AI Infrastructure Readiness session hosted by Africa…
Small by design: the structural reason African businesses don’t scale
Across Africa, entrepreneurship is not scarce. Sub-Saharan Africa alone has roughly 44 million micro, small and medium enterprises, the vast majority of them micro-businesses, and SMEs account for about 95%…
Beyond the Checkbox: industry leaders call for Cyber Resilience by design at Nigeria Telecoms Forum
Industry leaders across Nigeria’s telecommunications, infrastructure, and cybersecurity ecosystem have called for a fundamental shift in how operators and enterprises approach security, warning that compliance-driven models are no longer sufficient…
The Hyperscaler test: what Africa must deliver to win cloud regions
Across Africa, governments increasingly describe hyperscale cloud regions as strategic national infrastructure. Yet only a small number of countries on the continent have succeeded in attracting them. The reason is…
Digital sovereignty without regional coordination is a dead end
Across Africa, digital sovereignty has moved from a policy aspiration to an infrastructure agenda. Governments are introducing national cloud strategies, tightening data governance frameworks, and positioning artificial intelligence readiness as…
AI infrastructure in Africa will be built around inference, not hyperscale training clusters, say industry leaders
Africa’s artificial intelligence infrastructure is likely to develop around distributed inference deployments rather than gigawatt-scale training campuses, according to industry leaders speaking during Vertiv’s AI-Ready Data Centers for Africa: Building…
Africa will not build AI factories – and that may be its advantage
The global conversation about artificial intelligence infrastructure is dominated by gigawatt-scale “AI factories” - vast training campuses designed to support frontier model development. Across North America, Europe, and parts of…