Why here
Why Africa, and why now.
The case rests on three facts that happen to point the same way.
Energy with no buyer
Associated gas is flared because there is no commercial route to market. A compute site at the wellhead is that route, and it needs no pipeline and no grid connection.
A constrained national grid
Nigeria's grid has never exceeded roughly 6 GW for a population above 200 million. Anyone planning to pull hyperscale load from it is planning to be disappointed.
Africa holds a fraction of global compute
The continent accounts for well under one percent of global data-centre capacity. Demand for sovereign and in-country compute is growing much faster than supply.
Pressure to end routine flaring
Producers face increasing obligation to stop flaring. A buyer for that gas solves a compliance problem and a commercial one at the same time.
The objection we expect.
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