Firm unveils first phase of 100MW data centre

Kasi Cloud has commissioned the first phase of its planned 100-megawatt AI-ready hyperscale data centre campus in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria. The project, costing around $250 million, broke ground in April 2022 and began major construction in mid-2023, with this deployment marking the first operational phase of the campus. The facility is designed to support artificial intelligence workloads, cloud computing, enterprise storage, and high-density digital services. Nigeria currently has only 17 operational data centres, most under 25MW capacity, making this a significant expansion of local compute resources. The campus aims to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign-hosted infrastructure for AI and digital operations. The first deployment includes a 5.5-megawatt data hall and a 7.5-megawatt ecosystem floor, offering colocation, cloud hosting, storage, and networking services. Customers can lease infrastructure ranging from a single server node to an entire aisle of racks, according to Kasi Cloud’s CEO Johnson Agogbua. The company emphasizes locally designed infrastructure, contrasting it with previous foreign-dependent models. Kasi Cloud’s Global Director of Marketing and Sales Operations, Ngozika Agogbua, highlighted Africa’s low share of global AI compute capacity—less than one percent—and the economic cost of relying on overseas servers. She described the project as a structural turning point for Africa’s digital economy, comparing its potential impact to past connectivity advancements like subsea cables and mobile networks. The facility is also equipped to handle GPU-intensive AI workloads and serves as a carrier-neutral interconnection hub. The project aligns with Africa’s growing demand for AI and cloud-based services, as governments, financial institutions, and businesses increasingly adopt these technologies. Kasi Cloud plans to scale the campus into a full 100MW data infrastructure ecosystem over time.