{"id":968069,"date":"2025-10-17T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968069"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:13:17","slug":"ai-boom-sparks-billion-dollar-data-center-race-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/17\/ai-boom-sparks-billion-dollar-data-center-race-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Boom Sparks Billion-Dollar Data Center Race in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Nigeria is drawing millions of dollars into new data centers, propelled by the voracious online habits of its young, tech-savvy population and a push to harness artificial intelligence to power the next wave of its digital boom, reinforcing its position as one of Africa\u2019s top technology hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Global and regional operators \u2014 including Equinix Inc., Microsoft Corp., MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Rack Centre, Airtel Nigeria and Open Access Data Centres \u2014 are investing nearly $1 billion in next-generation facilities designed to handle advanced computing workloads and serve the continent\u2019s rapidly expanding online population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Nigeria is drawing millions of dollars into new data centers, propelled by the voracious online habits of its young, tech-savvy population and a push to harness artificial intelligence to power the next wave of its digital boom, reinforcing its position as one of Africa\u2019s top technology hubs. Global and regional operators \u2014 including Equinix Inc., Microsoft Corp., MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Rack Centre, Airtel Nigeria and Open Access Data Centres \u2014 are investing nearly $1 billion in next-generation facilities designed to handle advanced computing workloads and serve the continent\u2019s rapidly expanding online population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}