Africa’s Missing Middle
Africa has more international bandwidth than at any point in its history. New submarine cables have expanded capacity, created new landing points and improved the continent’s access to global internet…
Ghana’s AI ambition now meets infrastructure reality
Hon. Samuel Nartey George, Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations (MoCDTI), launched the country’s AI Strategy last month, reinforcing Ghana’s ambition to participate actively in the global AI…
Rack Centre launches academy to build regional data center talent pipeline
Rack Centre has launched a new training initiative aimed at addressing one of the most persistent constraints facing West Africa’s digital infrastructure sector: the shortage of skilled data center engineers.…
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…