Africa: Powering Africa’s digital future – Why energy infrastructure is the foundation of the intelligent era

[allAfrica] At Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026, the theme "Data, Compute & Energy: the power equation of the AI era " captured a reality the digital economy can no longer ignore. Amid the global race to digitalize economies and strengthen economic competitiveness, a paradox is emerging. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital services are often perceived as virtual, yet their greatest constraint is increasingly physical: energy. Electricity demand from data centers and AI workloads could more

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