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Evidence reviewed · 2026-08-10

Africa Infrastructure Intelligence · Evidence Explorer

Compare what is known.
See what is missing.

Eight African markets across cloud regions, provider-announced AI infrastructure, payments evidence, power and data-centre capacity. No missing value is converted into a zero, and no two-signal league table is presented as a market ranking.

Evidence sourced17 / 40cells across 5 dimensions
Market coverage8African markets tracked
Evidence statusRanking withheldinsufficient comparability
Last verification2026-08-10release africa-infra-v1.0.0
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Ranking withheld: comparable evidence is not yet sufficient.

Only big-three cloud-region presence is currently comparable across all eight markets. Cassava deployment status is shown as a company-specific signal, not as a measurement of each country’s total AI-compute access.

Evidence explorer
01 / Key infrastructure signals

What the evidence base currently shows

A register-wide view of claim strength, plus the continental capacity figures that frame every market comparison below.

Evidence-status distribution · 58 register entriesEvidence reviewed 2026-08-10
Verified · 18 Operational · 2 Announced · 2 Planned · 6 Estimated · 5 Disputed · 1 Unavailable · 24
Active capacity360 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Under construction238 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Planned656 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Global share0.6%ADCA 2026 estimate

Capacity totals conflict

Published estimates use different definitions—IT load, installed capacity and full build-out. This explorer uses the ADCA baseline and does not combine incompatible totals. Open ADCA source.

Mobile-money figures remain regional

GSMA reports $2.1tn globally and about $1.4tn in Africa for 2025. These figures are displayed as context only and are not attributed to individual countries. Open GSMA report.

02 / Market coverage

Eight markets, one evidence standard

Each card summarises all five tracked dimensions for a market. Colour marks claim status, not ranking — an unavailable cell is a research gap, not a zero.

03 / Evidence quality

Every claim carries a status, a confidence and a source

The register below is the classification system behind every tag on this page. Nothing is scored as zero; missing evidence stays unavailable.

Evidence status register

  • VERIFIEDSupported by affirmative evidence · 18 records
  • OPERATIONALIn service under the stated definition · 2 records
  • ANNOUNCEDPublicly stated; not independently operational · 2 records
  • PLANNEDIntended future activity · 6 records
  • ESTIMATEDMethod-based approximation · 5 records
  • DISPUTEDMaterial conflict or open challenge · 1 records
  • UNAVAILABLEComparable evidence is missing · 24 records
Phase 3 · Release intelligence

Inspect the evidence system behind the explorer.

Verify release integrity, coverage, source health, rejected claims and the ranking gate.

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04 / Market evidence & comparison workspace

Market evidence

Select up to three markets to compare. Open a row to inspect every source and limitation.

17 / 40 evidence cells sourced
Phase 4 · Comparison and history

Compare markets without false rankings.

Inspect evidence cells side by side and open the validated baseline snapshot.

Open comparison engine →

Selected comparison

No market matches this view.
05 / Country profiles

Open the evidence profile for every market

See what is known, what remains unavailable and the exact research priorities blocking comparability, market by market.

Phase 5 · Country intelligence

Open the evidence profile for every market.

See what is known, what remains unavailable and the exact research priorities blocking comparability.

Open country profiles →
06 / Decision workbench

Turn evidence into governed decisions

Three bounded workflows run directly against this evidence base, each with explicit gates and no hidden score.

Phase 6 · Decision intelligence

Turn evidence into bounded decisions.

Run three governed workflows across eight markets with explicit evidence gates and no hidden score.

Open decision workbench →
07 / Distribution & API access

Use this evidence beyond the browser

Governed APIs, feeds, CSV exports, AI discovery files and embeddable evidence cards.

Phase 7 · Open distribution

Use the intelligence beyond this interface.

Discover governed APIs, feeds, CSV exports, AI discovery files, and embeddable evidence cards.

Open distribution hub →
08 / Methodology & source transparency

How this evidence is built and verified

The rules that govern every cell above, the highest-value research gaps, and the primary sources behind every claim.

Method

  1. Cloud presence counts providers and regions separately. Edge sites and partner deployments are excluded.
  2. Cassava status records only Cassava’s own statement. It is not used as a proxy for total national compute.
  3. Missing evidence remains unavailable. It is never scored as zero.
  4. No overall rank appears until at least three genuinely comparable national dimensions exist.

Highest-value evidence gaps

  • One national data-centre capacity methodology across all eight markets.
  • Comparable monthly digital-payment activity from national regulators.
  • Comparable SAIDI/SAIFI or outage-hour grid-reliability data.
  • Operational GPU capacity and effective GPU-hour pricing by market.
  • Whether planned data-centre power is additive generation or existing grid supply.

Source register

Direct sources used by the explorer. Company announcements establish statements, not completed infrastructure.