Morocco is accelerating investment in digital infrastructure as it seeks a stronger position in Africa’s data center and AI market, drawing on gains in fiber connectivity, new computing capacity projects and expanding renewable energy, according to Le Nouvelliste. A separate initiative in Dakhla, the Igoudar Numerique program, will build a green data center campus with one part for the kingdom’s sovereign digital needs and another open to private investment, with feasibility studies launched in April 2026. Morocco is targeting a renewable share above 52 percent of installed capacity by 2030, with the current figure already at 45.3 percent. The World Bank identifies connectivity, computing capacity, data and skills as the four foundations of a competitive AI ecosystem, and has flagged a gap in Moroccan firms’ intensive use of advanced digital technologies. Even so, the investment already committed suggests Morocco’s push to convert its geography and renewable potential into digital capacity serving domestic and, eventually, regional African demand is no longer merely prospective.