Nigeria’s hyperscale moment: why Johnson Agogbua says Africa must stop importing its digital future

Africa’s digital infrastructure story has often been told through the language of connectivity: more subsea cables, more fiber routes, more mobile broadband, more internet exchange points, and more last-mile access.…

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The 2.2% problem: why Africa is underrepresented in global internet routing

Africa’s internet story is usually told through visible infrastructure: new subsea cables, more terrestrial fiber, expanding data centers, Internet Exchange Points, cloud points of presence and rising broadband adoption. By…

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Nigerian data centers have engineered better power resilience than elsewhere, industry leaders at Africa Hyperscalers briefing state

Nigeria’s difficult power environment may have forced its data center operators to build a level of resilience that is directly relevant to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new data localization…

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Africa Hyperscalers hosts industry leaders on CBN Data Localization directive and Nigeria’s Digital Infrastructure Readiness

Nigeria’s new data localization directive for the financial services sector could become a major catalyst for local cloud and data center demand, but its success will depend on how quickly…

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Hedging the Red Sea: Orange’s ViaTunisia establishes critical subsea route diversity

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French telecom major Orange has officially activated ViaTunisia, a 1,050-kilometer subsea cable connecting Marseille, France, to Bizerte, Tunisia. This deployment marks the first operational segment of AFR-IX Telecom’s larger 8,760-kilometer…

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Built for today, ready for tomorrow; inside Rack Centre’s 12MW facility

As global capital pools reassess digital infrastructure allocations, Nigeria’s foundational carrier-neutral hub is rewriting the pan-African playbook. The discourse surrounding African digital infrastructure is historically supply-driven, frequently dominated by sweeping…

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