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- Congo national data centre under construction. As of early May 2024 the civil engineering component is around 60% complete
- The data centre as it should look when completed in December 2024
- Congo: New data centre funded by African Development Bank will cement national and subregional digital sovereignty
- Michel Ngakala, coordinator of the Congo section of the Central Africa Fibre-Optic Backbone project, is adamant that the data centre will give Congo control over its digital data
- Sié Antoine-Marie Tioyé (the Bank’s country economist in Congo) is certain that the data centre will contribute to the development of Congo's digital economy
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Congo: New data centre funded by African Development Bank will cement national and subregional digital sovereignty
Financed by the African Development Bank, the futurist building will soon be the nerve centre for storing and processing the digital data of the Republic of Congo
Jolting hammer blows, the sounds of iron bars under a workman’s blowtorch, the odor of fresh cement: at the foot of the three-storey building rising in the Bacongo district of the Congolese capital, a sign tells visitors that a “National Data Centre Construction Project in Brazzaville” is happening here. Financed…