Kasi Cloud has commissioned the first phase of its planned 100-megawatt AI-ready hyperscale data centre campus in Lekki, Lagos, marking one of Nigeria’s most ambitious investments yet in digital infrastructure and local compute capacity.
The company said the facility is designed to support artificial intelligence workloads, cloud computing, enterprise storage and high-density digital services at a time when global demand for AI infrastructure is accelerating rapidly.
The project, estimated to cost about $250m, broke ground in April 2022, while major construction work began in the second quarter of 2023. The commissioning marks the first operational deployment within the broader campus, which Kasi Cloud plans to scale over time into a 100MW data infrastructure ecosystem.
Nigeria currently has about 17 operational data centres, according to industry estimates, with most facilities operating below 25MW capacity. Kasi Cloud said the Lekki campus is intended to significantly expand the country’s compute footprint and reduce dependence on foreign-hosted infrastructure.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Johnson Agogbua said the project is intended to help reverse Africa’s dependence on foreign digital infrastructure by creating local capacity capable of supporting the next generation of AI-driven applications.
