… first phase unveils 5.5MW data hall, 7.5MW ecosystem floor in planned 100MW hyperscale campus
Oredola Adeola
The Lagos State is leveraging its subnational power sector reforms to attract landmark digital infrastructure investment, with the commissioning of $250 million Kasi Cloud’s first phase, a hybrid gas, solar, and battery-powered facility forming part of a planned 100-megawatt AI-ready hyperscale data centre campus in Lekki.
Advisors Reports gathered that the first phase deployment of the 100-megawatt data infrastructure features a 5.5-megawatt data hall and a 7.5-megawatt ecosystem floor, designed to accommodate local and international businesses requiring colocation, cloud hosting, storage, and networking services.
Speaking at the commissioning, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Lagos is deliberately creating an enabling environment through reforms such as the Lagos State Electricity Law to allow technology and innovation to thrive,
He added that the state is also channelling investments into fibre connectivity, digital skills, and stronger public-private collaboration.
“The facility, designed to support AI workloads, cloud computing, enterprise storage, and high-density digital services, arrives at a moment of rapidly accelerating global demand for AI infrastructure,” the Governor said.
Sanwo-Olu further noted that over the past decade, Lagos has grown into the centre of Africa’s digital economy on the strength of its people’s resilience and innovation, but stressed that resilience alone is insufficient without continued investment in the infrastructure that supports enterprise and growth.
“If you are building cloud or AI infrastructure, we are ready to work with you — because enabling infrastructure is a smart economic strategy for our future,” he said.
Governor Sanwo-Olu emphasised that Lagos remains open for infrastructure investment and will honour its commitments as it works toward building a true 21st-century economy for Lagos and Nigeria.
Speaking earlier Johnson Agogbua, Kasi Cloud Founder and CEO framed the Lekki campus as more than a commercial venture, describing it as a structural turning point for Africa’s digital economy — one aimed at reversing the continent’s deep dependence on foreign-hosted infrastructure.
“Almost every other data centre built here was designed by others for us. Kasi is Nigeria proper. Africa proper,” he said.
Ngozika Agogbua, Global Director of Marketing and Sales Operations at Kasi Cloud in her comment stated that despite being among the world’s fastest-growing digital markets, Africa operates with less than one per cent of global compute capacity, with AI workloads routinely routed to servers in Europe and America.
She said that the economic and strategic cost of that dependency is enormous and largely invisibled
Against that backdrop, the Lekki campus — which broke ground in April 2022 with major construction commencing in mid-2023 — represents one of Nigeria’s most ambitious digital infrastructure investments to date.
Advisors Reports’ checks that the Kasi Cloud’s planned 100-megawatt facility is a major boost to Nigeria’s compute capacity amid rising regional demand for AI-ready infrastructure.
This is just as the country currently operates about 17 data centres, most with capacities below 25MW.
