Nigeria to get two new AI-ready data centres in a $1 billion investment

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