🇳🇬 English, 14 October 2026, data centre capacity
Africa's Data Centre Capacity to Reach 200MW in 5 Years, Nigeria Aims
Nigeria targets a fivefold increase in data centre capacity to 200MW, while Togo starts collecting data for AI in local languages
The World Bank has revised its 2026 growth forecast for Africa to 4.3%, with a focus on affordable AI solutions. Nigeria’s national chairman has set a goal to increase the country’s data centre capacity from 50MW to 200MW within five years, but notes that this depends on power supply. Togo has started collecting data for AI in its national languages, with a target of 50 hours of validated speech and 6,000 translated sentence pairs per language.
Ocular AI, a Zimbabwean startup, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to sell voice datasets and model evaluations to large AI labs. Vambo AI has released MORENA, a 1.5-billion-parameter open-weight model built for 12 African languages and English and French.
Morocco’s customs authority has used AI risk-analysis tools to audit imports and recover millions in duties and fines, but no official statement has been released.