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.
Tool Lab / 03 · Africa Infra Index
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.
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.
Phase 3 · Release intelligence
Open evidence operations →
Inspect the evidence system behind the explorer.
Verify release integrity, coverage, source health, rejected claims and the ranking gate.
Phase 4 · Comparison and history
Open comparison engine →
Compare markets without false rankings.
Inspect evidence cells side by side and open the validated baseline snapshot.
Phase 5 · Country intelligence
Open country profiles →
Open the evidence profile for every market.
See what is known, what remains unavailable and the exact research priorities blocking comparability.
Phase 6 · Decision intelligence
Open decision workbench →Turn evidence into bounded decisions.
Run three governed workflows across eight markets with explicit evidence gates and no hidden score.
Phase 7 · Open distribution
Open distribution hub →Use the intelligence beyond this interface.
Discover governed APIs, feeds, CSV exports, AI discovery files, and embeddable evidence cards.
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
Active capacity360 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Under construction238 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Planned656 MWADCA 2026 baseline
Global share0.6%ADCA 2026 estimate
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.
Market evidence
Select up to three markets to compare. Open a row to inspect every source and limitation.
17 / 40 evidence cells sourced
Selected comparison
No market matches this view.
Method
- Cloud presence counts providers and regions separately. Edge sites and partner deployments are excluded.
- Cassava status records only Cassava’s own statement. It is not used as a proxy for total national compute.
- Missing evidence remains unavailable. It is never scored as zero.
- 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.