What this index measures, and what it does not
Five pillars, one model applied to all 54 markets, and the reason every figure carries a source and a date.
The first dispatch. Investment decisions across African markets were being made on anecdote and on numbers with no provenance; the index exists so the comparison is explicit, with the same five pillars and the same model applied to every market.
Market by market
- 13 Apr 2026
Morocco lands a $1.2bn sovereign AI data centre
The Nexus AI Factory, backed by Nexus Core Systems, Nvidia, Naver and Lloyd Capital, will sit outside Casablanca and serve EMEA. It opens with 40MW of AI compute on Nvidia Blackwell GB200 hardware and is planned to reach 500MW on renewable supply from TAQA.
Read the full story at iAfrica → - 13 Apr 2026
Oracle opens North Africa’s first public cloud region in Casablanca
Oracle launched a public cloud region hosted by N+ONE Datacenters in Casablanca, the first full hyperscaler region in North Africa, with a second planned for Settat. It moves Morocco from "hyperscaler-adjacent" to hyperscaler-present, the shift that separates the top of this index on connectivity from the rest.
Read the full story at TechAfrica News → - 7 Apr 2026
Technical studies begin on Igouda, a 500MW campus at Dakhla
Digital transition minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni launched studies for what Morocco bills as Africa’s largest data centre, targeting 500MW by 2030. The design is entirely renewable-powered and cooled with Atlantic seawater, positioned as a "data embassy" on the edge of the Sahel.
Read the full story at Morocco World News →
- 7 Apr 2026
Nigerian regulator tours Airtel’s Lekki data centre
NCC board chairman Idris Olorunnimbe and executive vice chairman Aminu Maida visited Airtel’s Lekki facility for a briefing on infrastructure and network expansion plans. Visits like this are the visible end of operator-regulator alignment, which is what decides how fast new capacity clears approval.
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