How data centre sovereignty is redrawing Africa’s digital borders
12 November 2025
Across Africa, data sovereignty is reshaping where information lives, how infrastructure is built, and who controls the flow of the continent’s digital economy. What started as compliance is fast becoming a catalyst for investment, trust, and transformation.
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Powering Africa’s digital frontier
12 November 2025
As Africa’s digital transformation accelerates, data centres have become the silent engines powering everything from fintech to cloud innovation. Yet behind this progress lies a stark reality — without reliable, sustainable energy, the continent’s digital ambitions risk running on empty.
Across Africa, data centres are quietly reshaping the digital landscape. From Nairobi to Lagos, Johannesburg to Casablanca, these hubs of cloud computing and enterprise services form the backbone of an increasingly connected continent. But unlike their counterparts in Europe or North America, African data centres face a unique and often daunting challenge: reliable, sustainable power.
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Fortresses of the future: the evolution of data centre security
13 August 2025
As africa’s digital economy rapidly expands, the continent’s data centres face a unique cocktail of challenges: from socio-political instability and crime to climate extremes and power reliability. but amid these risks lies an opportunity — to build security frameworks that are not only robust but futureproofed. industry experts warren tilbrook of arup, chalon dilber of vca technology, and nico smit of gallagher security shed light on what it takes to secure the digital vaults of africa.
A high-risk landscape
Across the globe, physical data centre security must operate as a multilayered defence system, designed to address both conventional threats and region-specific risks such as theft, vandalism, and political instability.
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