The Hyperscaler test: what countries must do to attract global cloud regions

Hyperscalers are buying certainty, not land, and countries that understand this are winning the cloud-region race  The contest to host global cloud regions is often described as a technology race.…

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Xalam Analytics’ Guy Zibi and mPedigree’s Bright Simons join Africa Hyperscalers Global View sessions on Africa’s next digital infrastructure phase

Africa’s digital infrastructure debate is entering a new phase. After a decade defined largely by connectivity expansion, attention is shifting toward compute capacity, policy alignment, institutional readiness, and the structural…

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IFC’s Obinna Isiadinso joins Africa Hyperscalers Global View session on financing digital infrastructure

Africa’s digital economy is expanding rapidly, but the infrastructure required to support it remains uneven and underdeveloped. As demand for cloud services, data centers, and AI-ready compute grows across the…

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Canada’s pension giant has built a digital infrastructure machine. Africa’s pension funds should pay attention.

There is a reason the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, better known as CPP Investments, keeps turning up in digital infrastructure deals. Recently, it announced it would purchase, with Equinix,…

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