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Conceptual still life of a fibre cable pinned down at three points by heavy brass weights
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Nigeria’s $2 Billion Fibre Gamble: World Bank Milestones, EU Backing, and the Right-of-Way Problem That Could Derail Africa’s Most Ambitious Broadband Project

Nigeria has secured over $1.1 billion in development finance for Project BRIDGE — a plan to extend its fibre backbone from 35,000km to 125,000km. The World Bank will only disburse if milestones are met. MTN reported 5,400 fibre cuts in seven months. Whether BRIDGE succeeds or stalls will determine Nigeria’s digital trajectory for the next decade.
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Nigerian technicians in hard hats guide a crane lowering a containerised data-centre module into place at dusk on the outskirts of Lagos, with a diesel generator and power cables in the foreground.
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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

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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