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AFRICA
The Rise of the African Cloud
2023 EditionCloud services have become one of the most essential pillars of Africa’s digital transformation. Our analysis of the African private and public cloud investment opportunity is here.
MIDDLE EAST
The KSA Data Center Boom
2024 EditionThe Saudi colo market is brimming with upside. Capacity volumes are skyrocketing, demand is strong, competition is intensifying, and AI workloads are coming.
AFRICA
The African Data Center Gigawatt
2022 EditionOur reference report on the African data center opportunity. Including analysis of investor questions, from overbuild risk to sustainability, hyperscaler deployments and data center asset valuations.
NORTH AFRICA
Egypt Data Centers: Primed for Take-off
2024 EditionThe most populous country in the Arab world, the third largest economy in the MENA region and a crucial corridor for global trade. Egypt is a highly undersupplied data center market at the onset of the cloud era.
FEATURED RESEARCH
At a time when opportunities for returns seem increasingly scarce in a high cost of capital environment, our new report argues that the Middle East’s singular combination of economic vision, cloud and AI push makes MENA data centers one of the most extraordinary digital infrastructure investment opportunities in the Global South - geopolitics notwithstanding.
MARKET BRIEFS
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VISUALIZE THE DATA
Tracking the physical infrastructure anchoring our virtual worlds
Underneath the digital prowess of cloud and AI lies a gigantic digital infrastructure ecosystem, including data centers. Hyperscale cloud providers are speeding up the construction of cloud data center facilities, bringing digital applications closer to billions of users around the world and spurring a seminal transformation in the world’s global digital infrastructure.
This visualization tracks the location of public cloud regions and availability zones by the world's top 10 hyperscale cloud providers. Explore and draw your own conclusions.
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