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.
The country’s telecommunications market provides one foundation for this push: as of March 2025, Morocco counted nearly 39.9 million internet subscriptions, while fiber-to-the-home connections topped 1.12 million lines, up 22.7 percent year on year, per regulator ANRT. Investment has extended into AI-specific infrastructure, with an AI Factory project combining a data center, a center of excellence and an innovation hub launched in April 2026, backed by 12 billion dirhams across two phases and targeting 36 megawatts of capacity by end-2027.
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.
Energy supply looms large over this expansion, given data centers’ heavy power demands. Morocco is targeting a renewable share above 52 percent of installed capacity by 2030, with the current figure already at 45.3 percent. The kingdom climbed 14 places in 2025 in an index measuring government readiness for AI, reaching 87th globally and eighth in the MENA region, supported by the AI Made in Morocco roadmap and the D4SD regional hub developed with the UN Development Program.
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.
