Egypt: to invest $1 billion in its first 200 MW AI data centre

(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Egypt is set to build its first data centre dedicated to artificial intelligence, investing $1 billion in a 200-megawatt facility that will utilise Nvidia technologies. The announcement was made by the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Raafat Hindi. The first phase of the project involves a 20-megawatt facility to be completed within three years at a cost of $200 million.

The companies involved in the project are Vodafone Business, Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies, Nvidia’s main partner in Africa. According to reports in recent days, coinciding with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Egypt, Huawei had put itself forward to build a data centre in Egypt, but no agreement was reached, prompting the government to enter into negotiations with a consortium of US companies backed by Washington.

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