Africa Hyperscalers has announced plans to host the Digital Infrastructure Outlook 2026, its annual high-level virtual session themed “From Ambition to Assets: Building Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Reality,” aimed at confronting the growing gap between Africa’s digital ambitions and on-the-ground delivery.
Scheduled for mid-February 2026, the session comes at a critical juncture for the continent’s digital economy. Over the past five years, African governments and industry stakeholders have announced an unprecedented pipeline of broadband expansion plans, data center developments, cloud strategies, and AI roadmaps. Yet despite this momentum, execution continues to lag, with many projects delayed, underutilized, or failing to reach financial close.
The Digital Infrastructure Outlook 2026 is positioned as a reality check for the year ahead. Rather than focusing on new announcements or aspirational targets, the session will examine the concrete foundations required to support Africa’s digital economy at scale, including resilient connectivity networks, interconnected data centers, reliable power, cloud-ready regulatory frameworks, and bankable capital structures.
The program will feature keynote presentations that provide a data-driven assessment of Africa’s digital infrastructure readiness and what is realistically deliverable by 2026. A panel comprising development finance institutions, operators and regulators will discuss the theme “Translating Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Ambition to Bankability,” and focus on why some projects secure financing while others stall, how risk is allocated across governments, operators, and capital providers, and what must change to make digital infrastructure a repeatable, investable asset class.
The objective of the Outlook session is not to forecast trends, but to interrogate execution economics: what gets financed, what gets delayed, what becomes stranded, and what ultimately gets built. The session is expected to attract regulators, policymakers, data center and cloud operators, telecom and connectivity providers, investors, development finance institutions, and enterprise technology leaders from across the continent.
As Africa enters what many stakeholders describe as a decisive execution phase, the Digital Infrastructure Outlook 2026 seeks to shift the conversation from ambition to delivery, and from policy declarations to physical assets that can support growth, competitiveness, and digital sovereignty.
Registration details and full session information will be released by Africa Hyperscalers in the coming weeks.
