⇓ More from ICTworksAfrica has 50 data centers that Uptime Institute has physically inspected and certified as built to Tier III or Tier IV. On that measure, South Africa leads with 49 facilities, followed by Kenya, Nigeria, and Egypt, and South Africa and Nigeria together hold roughly 80% of operational capacity. In 2021 Morocco passed a law ordering all sensitive data to be hosted inside the country, which forced data repatriation and gave every bank, telco, and ministry a reason to build locally. : nearly every constructed site in Egypt and Morocco is a bank, a payment processor, or a securities depository. True carrier-neutral colocation is tiny: Africa Data Centres, MainOne, Rack Centre, Medasys, N+One, and Raxio hosts cloud on-ramps and the AI workloads that every market report leads with, but are a small percentage of certified data centers.