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GITEX Africa 2026: What the Deals and Announcements Signal for African Tech H2

GITEX Africa 2026 delivered Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy and its AI Made in Morocco initiative, a cybersecurity diagnosis from MTN’s CISO, and the Supernova Challenge startup competition. BETAR.africa assesses which signals from Marrakech are load-bearing and which are noise.

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GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech

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GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech

BETAR Newsroom
April 8, 2026

Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy, hyperscale data centre commitments, and 800 startups competing in the Supernova Challenge headline the first day of GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech.

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Africa's AI Data Centre Race: MTN Lagos, Microsoft Kenya, and the Power Problem

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Africa’s AI Data Centre Race: MTN Lagos, Microsoft Kenya, and the Power Problem

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March 29, 2026

Africa’s data centre market is projected to double to $4.36B by 2031. MTN’s $240M Sifiso Dabengwa Data Centre in Lagos and Microsoft’s $1B geothermal-powered East Africa Cloud Region in Kenya represent the continent’s most ambitious physical AI infrastructure bets — and reveal how power, not capital, is the real constraint.

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Africa's AI Data Centre Race: MTN's $240M Lagos Bet, Microsoft's Kenya Gamble, and the Energy Problem That Could Derail Both

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Africa’s AI Data Centre Race: MTN’s $240M Lagos Bet, Microsoft’s Kenya Gamble, and the Energy Problem That Could Derail Both

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

MTN is spending $240 million on an AI-optimised data centre in Lagos. Microsoft and G42 have committed $1 billion to a geothermal-powered campus in Kenya. Google’s Johannesburg region is live and its Umoja subsea cable is coming. Africa’s data centre investment wave is real — but the continent still holds less than 1% of global compute capacity, and energy constraints may keep it that way.

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