Nigeria to get two new AI-ready data centres in a $1 billion investment.
Financing and reliable electricity remain key execution hurdles.
INFRAGORA Global Capital, a South African infrastructure investment firm, plans to begin construction of two AI-ready data centres in Nigeria by the second quarter of 2027, as it advances a project estimated to cost between $650 million and $1 billion.
The proposed facilities, part of the firm’s AFRIDATA data centre platform, are in the final stages of detailed assessment and design, with financial close expected before construction begins, Kiel Odiogo, INFRAGORA’s senior managing director, told TechCabal in an email response.
The proposed facilities rank among Nigeria’s largest planned data centre investments, reflecting growing demand for computing infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI), cloud services and enterprise data processing. Other projects in development include Kasi Cloud’s 100-megawatt data centre , backed by an estimated $250 million in initial capitalisation. The INFRAGORA project is the proposed flagship of a continental platform estimated at $3 billion to more than $5 billion. The company plans to develop between 300MW and 550MW of additional data centre capacity across markets including Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa and Egypt.
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