MTN Names South Africa and Nigeria as First Markets for AI Data Centre Push, With UAE-Backed Partner Unidentified

MTN Group has identified South Africa and Nigeria as the priority markets for the first phase of its AI-enabled data centre strategy, and disclosed a partnership with a UAE-backed investment platform to accelerate the build — though it has not named the Emirati partner, the capital committed or the capacity planned. The disclosures came in the group’s H1 2026 results booklet. MTN Digital Infrastructure spent the half developing the investment, operating and partnership model for the platform, in