Nigeria has 13 to 14 gigawatts of installed power capacity. On most days, only 4 to 6 gigawatts of it is actually available. That gap, not the headlines, is deciding who wins Africa's data centre race.

We risk becoming permanently dependent, paying rent on intelligence instead of owning a share of it." Oluwaseyi Ayodeji on the six pillars of AI sovereignty, power, compute, chips, data, governance and talent, and why Africa can't afford to stay a spectator.