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Africa’s Data Centre expansion raises questions over skilled workforce availability

Post author:Editor
Post published: November 4, 2026
Post category:Data Center Digital Infrastructure

Africa’s data centre boom is creating a new challenge: finding enough engineers, technicians and operations specialists to run increasingly complex facilities. As investment in cloud, AI and digital infrastructure accelerates, workforce development must scale alongside new capacity. In Nigeria, Rack Centre and IBTC have launched the Rack Centre Academy to combine professional certification with hands-on experience in a live data-centre environment—offering one model for closing the gap between education and industry needs.

How Northern Virginia built the world’s largest data centre market – and the lessons for Africa

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 27, 2026
Post category:Analysis Data Center Digital Infrastructure

Northern Virginia did not become the world’s largest data-centre market by accident. Its growth was built on connectivity, government and enterprise demand, supportive regulation, affordable power and sustained private investment. Africa is now seeing similar early signals through data sovereignty, artificial intelligence, cloud adoption and digital public infrastructure. The continent’s opportunity is not simply to build more data centres, but to create connected regional hubs with credible demand, reliable power and policies that attract long-term investment.

NITDA, CBN to Convene Financial Sector Dialogue on Data Localisation

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:News Cloud

Abuja, Nigeria — 19th October, 2026. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), will convene an Executive Regulatory Dialogue on 28…

Governments could become the anchor customers Africa’s data centres need

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:Analysis Data Center

Moving public services into domestic data centres could give operators the predictable demand they need while improving service delivery and strengthening national control over sensitive data. Africa’s growing data centre…

West Africa wants a single digital market. Its borders are getting in the way

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:Analysis Regulation

Governments have promised harmonised roaming, interconnected national backbones and regional digital services. But inconsistent licences, rights-of-way rules and border procedures continue to make infrastructure costly and regional connectivity unreliable. West…

Africa’s connectivity conundrum: more networks, less users

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:Analysis Regulation

The continent’s connectivity challenge has evolved from network coverage to smartphone affordability. Unless governments tackle device costs, billions invested in 4G, 5G, fibre and satellite capacity will struggle to deliver…

Africa’s internet is still being routed through Europe

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:Analysis Connectivity

Subsea cables and data centres are multiplying, but weak local peering, fragmented regulation and expensive cross-connects mean that too much African internet traffic still leaves the continent before reaching users…

Africa is building data centres faster than it is creating demand

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 19, 2026
Post category:Analysis Data Center Infrastructure

Data sovereignty policies could direct more workloads into African facilities, but fragmented localisation rules risk raising costs and weakening the regional scale that operators need. Africa’s data centre market is…

The sustainability equation for Africa’s data centres

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 9, 2026
Post category:Industry Views

By David Erwee, Head of Architecture, Managed Services at Datacentrix Johannesburg, South Africa – 06 October, 2026. Data centres have become an increasingly visible part of the infrastructure underpinning today's digital…

The CBN Data Rule Has a Satellite Question Nobody Is Asking

Post author:Editor
Post published: October 6, 2026
Post category:Analysis Regulation

The CBN Data Rule Has a Satellite Question Nobody Is Asking On 15 June 2026, the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a circular directing that all payment transaction data generated…

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