Africa’s AI sovereignty problem is really an energy problem

Africa's AI ambitions keep colliding with the same wall. Foreign powers overpromise, legislation imitates the wrong models, and beneath it all sits an energy deficit that no amount of geopolitical deal-making can paper over. The sovereignty question was never really about algorithms. It was always about the power grid. Africa's AI ambitions keep colliding with the same wall. Foreign powers overpromise, legislation imitates the wrong models, and beneath it all sits an energy deficit that no amount of geopolitical deal-making can paper over. The sovereignty question was never really…