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South Africa Ranks Among Global Leaders in AI Data Centres, Outpacing Taiwan and Netherlands – iAfrica.com | SA News

South Africa now hosts four AI-focused data centres – more than Taiwan and the Netherlands combined – placing it among the top 13 countries globally for AI compute infrastructure, according to a new study by University of Oxford researchers.

The study, AI Compute Sovereignty: Infrastructure Control Across Territories, Cloud Providers, and Accelerators, reveals South Africa is the only African country with AI-capable data centres, split between two designed for model training and two for inference.

Globally, South Africa ties with countries like South Korea and Australia, each with four AI data centres. The U.S. and China lead with 26 and 22 facilities, respectively, while Germany (7)…

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