The 2.2% problem: why Africa is underrepresented in global internet routing

Africa’s internet story is usually told through visible infrastructure: new subsea cables, more terrestrial fiber, expanding data centers, Internet Exchange Points, cloud points of presence and rising broadband adoption. By…

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Africa’s global compute share has dropped 20% in two years despite infrastructure expansion

Africa’s digital infrastructure footprint is expanding rapidly, yet its position in the global compute landscape is weakening. Over the past two years, the continent’s share of global compute capacity has…

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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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