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…
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…
Nigeria’s digital economy briefly vanished. Businesses could not transact. Workers could not connect. Households lost access to the online services that increasingly substitute for failing physical infrastructure. Across Lagos and…
WIOCC is moving quickly to convert fresh capital into physical infrastructure, accelerating its push beyond wholesale connectivity and deeper into owned digital assets. Days after announcing a $65 million sustainability-linked…
African digital infrastructure provider WIOCC Group has secured $65 million in sustainability-linked debt financing, underscoring rising investor appetite for the continent’s fast-growing digital backbone as demand from cloud, content, and…
AI-driven data center demand is poised to reshape global project financing, according to new research from corporate services firm CSC, which warns of a $1.5 trillion funding gap emerging as…
Helios Investment Partners and Fipar-Holding, a subsidiary of Morocco’s CDG Invest, have launched 3MDC, a consolidated digital-infrastructure platform they say will accelerate Morocco’s digital transformation and strengthen the country’s ambitions…
Africa Hyperscalers will convene a high-level strategy workshop in Lagos on December 11, 2025, to advance a coordinated approach to network buildout and shared infrastructure models across Nigeria’s digital economy. The…
By Wojtek Piorko As Africa accelerates its critical digital infrastructure investments, Angola is emerging as a country with strong potential for leadership. Its strategic geographic position, rapidly growing mobile ecosystem,…
The United Arab Emirates has announced a $1 billion commitment to build AI infrastructure across Africa, in what officials describe as a major effort to boost access to computing power,…
OpenAI will require roughly $207 billion in additional financing by 2030 to meet its long-term data-center and hardware commitments, according to new analysis from HSBC’s US software and services team.…