adsNigeria is intensifying efforts to stop the estimated $850 million spent annually by local enterprises on foreign cloud infrastructure, as Kasi Cloud Datacenters commissioned West Africa’s first hyperscale-ready, AI-capable data centre campus in Lagos, a move expected to strengthen the country’s digital sovereignty and keep critical data infrastructure investments within the economy.
The commissioning ceremony of the Kasi Lekki Campus on Tuesday marked the transition of the facility from construction phase into operational readiness, positioning Nigeria to host sensitive financial, enterprise, and government workloads locally instead of relying heavily on offshore cloud providers operating under foreign jurisdictions.
Located on about four hectares in the Maiyegun area of Lekki, Lagos, the facility sits adjacent to six major subsea cable landing stations, including Equiano and 2Africa, giving it strategic connectivity advantages for cloud computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise hosting, and accelerated computing services.
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Kasi Cloud Datacenters said the campus is designed to scale to approximately 100 megawatts of critical IT capacity when fully developed, while the first building, LOS1, has already been engineered for high-density AI workloads and enterprise cloud operations with sub-50 milliseconds latency for local workloads.adsads
