Why the AI gold rush may be smaller than Eskom hopes

Why the AI gold rush may be smaller than Eskom hopes

Teraco’s CT2 data centre in Cape Town Eskom is courting the world’s largest technology companies as buyers for a power surplus it cannot otherwise shift, chairman Mteto Nyati told the Financial Times on Wednesday. But South Africa’s biggest data centre operator says the industry’s problem is not a shortage of generation. Nyati said Eskom was…

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Why the spectrum gold rush may soon be over

Why the spectrum gold rush may soon be over

The current approach to spectrum licensing by telecommunications regulators, where each licensee gets exclusive access to specific bands of spectrum in exchange for large pots of money, may soon be a thing of the past. Speaking at the Wireless Access Providers’ Association’s Wapaloza conference in Johannesburg on Monday, Dean Bubley, the founder of telecoms advisory…

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