What’s at stake

Strengthening the performance of the local private and public sector

Data centers are a cornerstone of digital development in emerging markets and are vital to sustaining growth. They help improve the analytical capacity of local companies (e.g., analytical processing of databases, etc.) and therefore their overall performance.
These centers enable data to be processed and stored locally and have various beneficial effects, including reducing latency for businesses and public authorities.

Meaningful social impact

The high cost of Internet access is due to the limited capacity of expensive international connections (submarine cables and satellites). This is particularly true in landlocked countries that are not connected, whether directly or indirectly via their neighboring countries. Local data hosting promotes the use of national bandwidth and will have the effect of reducing the retail price of telephone and Internet services for consumers, also helping to increase information access.

Critical infrastructure for the governance and sovereignty of emerging countries

Data centers are particularly important for the emergence of local digital services and to support administrations’ digital transition (e-governance, electronic ID cards, etc.). They ensure the strengthening of public services by enabling continuity and a substantial gain in productivity for government agencies.
Data centers also meet the need to guarantee the autonomy of emerging countries in terms of data storage and management. There is a real hosting deficit in emerging countries, with the vast majority of data hosted abroad. This technical concern often goes hand in hand with regulatory requirements to host certain data on national territory (electoral lists, health data, banking data, etc.).