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African countries debate ownership and resource costs of foreign AI infrastructure

African nations seek digital sovereignty amid foreign AI investments like a $1bn Kenyan data centre. Africa holds 18% of the population but under 1% of data capacity.

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African countries debate ownership and resource costs of foreign AI infrastructure

Why it matters: Policy is expanding the infrastructure surface for builders, which can change where inference runs, what gets deployed locally, and how teams package AI workloads.

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