Airtel is putting $120m into a 38MW facility at Eko Atlantic, designed for AI compute rather than general cloud storage, and targeted to be operational by the end of 2026. It would be the largest data centre in Nigeria and the first of five hyperscale sites the group has flagged for Africa.
Equinix, Kasi, Nxtra by Airtel and OADC are all building close to the eight subsea landing stations on Lagos Island, buying short routes to international capacity and access to cooling water. Nigerian capacity is expected to move from about 64MW to roughly 200MW by 2027, second on the continent behind Johannesburg.
Open Access Data Centres, part of WIOCC Group, set out a $240m multi-phase expansion of its Lagos facility to 24MW, the first 12MW due in 2026. The spend sits inside a wider $500m African build programme aimed at cloud, analytics and AI demand.
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