retrofit an existing facility or adapt a standard enterprise data centre model for the African market. Kasi facilities are designed from scratch, asking what Africa’ s digital economy would need not today but a decade from now.

Johnson drew directly on his experience at Meta, where rack units – the standardised metal frames that hold servers – run up to 58U in height, reaching 2.73 metres, packed with graphics processing units( GPUs), the specialised chips that power AI workloads, alongside storage and compute systems.

“ The power density is a different thing entirely,” Johnson explains.“ You need a different design.”

That design process was collaborative from the start. Johnson held sessions with hyperscalers – large cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – as well as with enterprise customers, asking granular questions about conduit capacity, storage facility dimensions and how their compute requirements might

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