MTN Group is moving to deepen its position in Africa’s digital infrastructure market, with a new venture targeting 150 megawatts of AI-enabled data center capacity across the continent. Its digital infrastructure arm, Bayobab, has established Africa Data Hub Holding through a joint venture with a United Arab Emirates-based data center investment platform. The initiative puts South Africa and Nigeria at the center of its initial expansion, positioning the two markets as launchpads for infrastructure designed to support growing artificial intelligence workloads. For MTN, the move extends its ambitions beyond telecommunications connectivity into the physical infrastructure that increasingly determines where digital services operate and how businesses access computing resources.