Up until now, most Nigerian companies hosting data online had to send it abroad by default, since local infrastructure at this scale simply wasn’t available. The Nigeria Data Protection Act asks a fairly direct question: where does the data actually live? For companies working under NDPA, or dealing with regulators and customers who care about data location, “somewhere in Nigeria” is now a real answer instead of an aspiration. Lisbon’s territory is North Africa, part of West Africa, and Europe, with a subsea cable out to Brazil. Same account, but a server in Lagos falls under Nigeria’s NDPA, one in Lisbon falls under EU data protection law, and one in Johannesburg falls under South Africa‘s POPIA.