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Africa: Europe’s Heatwave Warning for Africa – Fast-Track a Climate Leapfrog

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago011 mins

A looming super El Niño makes Africa’s leap from fossil fuels to a renewables-dominated energy mix urgent. The heatwave that swept Europe this summer claimed at least 35 000 lives. Other parts of the world were also affected, with heatwaves in India, wildfires in Indonesia and a glacial melt-related flood disaster in Nepal, all of…

How African enterprises can leapfrog the AI infrastructure trap

eriinfo.com4 months ago010 mins

For years, African enterprises have faced a unique scissor gap: the urgent demand for digital transformation on one side, and the reality of unstable power grids, high cross-border bandwidth costs and a localised shortage of AI expertise on the other. In this context, pursuing outright ownership of underlying compute capacity risks trapping enterprises in a…