Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as software, but its limits are increasingly physical. Every model depends on processors housed in data centres, continuous electricity, cooling systems, fibre connections and engineers who can keep the equipment running.
Solomon Asamoah sees this as a defining infrastructure question for Ghana and Africa: how can the continent expand compute without allowing a new class of industrial demand to compete carelessly with homes, hospitals and businesses for constrained power and water?
The answer cannot be to avoid data centres. Depending entirely on distant infrastructure can make services slower, expose businesses and governments to foreign-currency costs, complicate decisions about where sensitive data is stored and leave local firms at the edge of the AI economy. [Read more…] about Solomon Asamoah on Ghana’s AI Infrastructure Test: Compute Cannot Outrun Power and Water
