Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, economies and societies at an unprecedented speed. As demand for cloud computing, AI workloads and data-intensive digital services accelerates, access to resilient, scalable and locally hosted digital infrastructure will become increasingly critical to Africa’s competitiveness and economic growth.
Against this backdrop, MTN Group today announced that MTN Digital Infrastructure has entered into a strategic partnership with UAE-based data centre investment platform to accelerate the development of AI-ready digital infrastructure platforms across Africa.
The partnership represents an important milestone in MTN’s Ambition 2030 strategy and reflects the Group’s commitment to enabling the infrastructure foundations required to support Africa’s next phase of digital transformation and economic development.
By combining MTN Digital Infrastructure’s extensive African footprint, market knowledge and infrastructure assets with specialist investment, development and operating expertise in the data centre sector, the partnership will help address growing demand for cloud, enterprise, digital and AI-enabled services across the continent.
The partners will pursue this strategic partnership through Africa Data Hub Holding Limited, which will serve as the platform through which future digital infrastructure opportunities will be developed and scaled across key African markets, with an initial focus on South Africa and Nigeria.
