AI Data Centers in Africa

African AI infrastructure is expanding through national cloud regions, telecom-backed facilities, and early sovereign AI investments across multiple markets.

Facilities
19
Total Capacity
1.3GW
Countries
7
Operators
20
7 Operational 2 Building 10 Pipeline
Facility Capacity
Naver & NVIDIA Morocco AI Data Center (Tamesna)
Tamesna, Morocco
 500MW
AWS — Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1
Cape Town, South Africa
 120MW
AWS — Middle East South (Cairo) me-south-2
Cairo, Egypt
 100MW
Microsoft & G42's Olkaria Geothermal Data Center (Kenya)
Naivasha, Kenya
 100MW
Ethiopia — National AI Factory
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 100MW
Microsoft Azure — South Africa AI Region
Johannesburg, South Africa
 80MW
Amazon Web Services — Cape Town Africa Region (af-south-1)
Cape Town, South Africa
 60MW
AWS — Cape Town Africa Region
Cape Town, South Africa
 60MW
Microsoft Azure — South Africa North Region (Johannesburg)
Johannesburg, South Africa
 60MW
Google Cloud — Johannesburg Africa Region
Johannesburg, South Africa
 60MW
Microsoft Azure — Nigeria Region (Lagos, Announced)
Lagos, Nigeria
 50MW
Egypt Government Data & Cloud Computing Center
Cairo, Egypt
 25MW
Raxio — Dar es Salaam AI Data Center
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
 10MW
MTN AI Data Center (Nigeria)
Ikeja, Nigeria
 9MW
Equinix LG3 Lagos (Nigeria)
Lagos, Nigeria
 1MW
Cassava AI Data Center (South Africa)
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Cassava AI Data Center (Nigeria)
Lagos, Nigeria
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Cassava AI Data Center (Morocco)
Casablanca, Morocco
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Cassava AI Data Center (Egypt)
Cairo, Egypt
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Countries in Africa

Egypt Ethiopia Kenya Morocco Nigeria South Africa Tanzania

Operators Active in Africa

Africa Data Centres Amazon Amazon Web Services AWS Cassava Technologies Equinix Ethiopian AI Institute & International Investors G42 Genova (MTN AI infrastructure) Google Government of Egypt Lloyd Capital MCIT Microsoft MTN Group Naver Nexus Core Systems NVIDIA Raxio Group TAQA Morocco
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