Read more about the article Africa’s Data Centre expansion raises questions over skilled workforce availability

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

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.

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

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

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.

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Read more about the article Africa has digital demand. The real hurdle is turning it into infrastructure investment

Africa has digital demand. The real hurdle is turning it into infrastructure investment

Africa’s young population, rising internet use and rapid digitisation make a compelling case for more digital infrastructure. But investors financing data centres, fibre and cloud capacity need more than potential:…

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