The Distressed Continent
Africa has worn many labels over the past two decades. In 2000, The Economist called it “The Hopeless Continent.” A decade later came the reversal: “Africa Rising.” By 2013, optimism…
“Africa must build before it connects,” says Africa Data Centres’ Krish Ranganath
The Regional Executive argues that data sovereignty, power reform, and execution discipline will determine whether Africa captures value in the next digital cycle. Africa’s digital future will not be decided…
AI in Africa will be won on power, cooling and execution – Experts
As artificial intelligence spending accelerates globally, a hard reality is setting in across boardrooms and policy circles: AI is no longer constrained by ambition, models, or software talent. It is…
Oracle backs Kenya’s Public Cloud region with IX Africa partnership
Oracle has selected iXAfrica Data Centres as its colocation partner for a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public cloud region in Nairobi, a move that positions Kenya among a small…
Vertiv, Africa Hyperscalers to convene West Africa’s enterprise IT leaders on infrastructure readiness
In collaboration with Vertiv, Africa Hyperscalers will host an upcoming AI-focused webinar examining one of the most pressing questions facing West Africa’s enterprise technology leaders today: whether existing digital infrastructure…
Davos 2026: Africa’s AI moment Is an infrastructure test
Davos 2026 shows the continent’s AI ambitions will rise or fall on data centers, power systems and bankable policy. OpenAI arrived in Davos selling more than chatbots. In a new…
The world is building data centers at trillion-dollar scale. Africa faces a narrow window
A projected $3 trillion global investment surge into data centers by 2030 is not a speculative bubble but a structural realignment of digital infrastructure capital, according to new forecasts by…
Helios exits Axxela in major digital infrastructure bet
Helios Investment Partners has completed the sale of its 75 percent equity stake in Axxela Limited to BlueCore Gas InfraCo Limited, a consortium of Nigerian and international energy players that…
xAI’s “2-Gigawatt” and implications for Africa’s compute
xAI’s push toward nearly 2GW of compute capacity is more than a headline about scale; it marks how AI has shifted from a software race to an industrial infrastructure contest…
Beyond Infrastructure – Can Africa close the enterprise execution gap?
Africa’s digital economy is filled with new fiber, data centers, and cloud platforms, but many enterprises still struggle to convert that available capacity into results. That was the takeaway from the Enterprise IT…