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The models, chips, data centres and policy deciding who owns Africa's AI future.

Africa's AI moment: $1 trillion on the table by 2035 — and a fight over who owns the pipes

The African Development Bank says artificial intelligence could add up to $1 trillion to the continent's economy by 2035. The harder question is who will own the data centres, models and cloud it runs on.

Himilo Post Desk · 2h ago

Artificial Intelligence
Nairobi bets on sovereign AI: the push to keep African data at home
Two Kenyan firms have launched what they call the country's first sovereign AI cloud — a wager that Africa's AI future depends on training and serving data close to the people who generate it.
2h ago

Africa's AI moment: $1 trillion on the table by 2035 — and a fight over who owns the pipes

Nairobi bets on sovereign AI: the push to keep African data at home