Morocco is set to become AI gateway for Africa, Europe, and beyond thanks to the Nexus AI Factory to be built in the Kingdom, the first sovereign AI infrastructure platform of its kind in Africa.
South Africa and other African countries were competing for this major project, but the international investors and technology giants selected Morocco, a reliable partner with political stability, strategic location, world-class infrastructure…
An initial investment of $1.2 billion will be injected in this landmark digital project unveiled at GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakesh. The 500-megawatt renewable energy-based data centre will be built by a consortium composed of US AI infrastructure specialist Nexus Core Systems, AI tech giant Nvidia, Korea’s Naver, leader in AI & cloud computing and global investment firm Lloyd Capital.
The next-generation AI data centre will be located in Casablanca suburbs. It will operate sovereign AI computing services across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
In its first phase, the Data Center will start operating with a 40-megawatt AI supercomputing infrastructure, powered with American with Nvidia’s latest Blackwell (GB200) GPUs. It is expected to expand to a maximum of 500 megawatts in stages thereafter.
The consortium has secured a sustainable and stable power infrastructure by signing a strategic renewable energy supply contract with UAE-headquartered international power producer TAQA.
According to experts, the transition of data economy into the intelligence economy pushes computers, power, cooling and connectivity far beyond the limits of traditional data centres.
The creation of new AI factories with strong connectivity, renewable energy access and sovereign data aims to sustain the intelligence economy for decades to come.
