Lagos Is Getting a $250 Million Hyperscale Data Center. Here’s Why Nigeria Still Can’t Power the Cloud.

Kasi Cloud just broke ground on what will become one of Africa’s largest data center campuses — modeled after Silicon Valley tech parks, built to hyperscale standards, and located in the heart of West Africa’s digital economy. But there’s a problem: Nigeria’s national grid has never delivered more than 6GW for 230 million people. Every rack will run on diesel.