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Morocco
Morocco is positioning as a sovereign African data centre hub, with Africa's best-documented university supercomputer and a 500 MW Dakhla project announced.
Digital Morocco 2030 was launched on 25 September 2024, with 11 billion dirhams allocated for 2024 to 2026. Casablanca has over 25 data centres and Oracle announced 140 million dollars for cloud regions. A 500 MW hyperscale site at Dakhla was announced in 2025, but only one trade report was read and it is not yet built. Law 09-08 governs personal data and some sectors face localisation rules. Rising land and energy costs may slow growth.
AI policy and activity
A National AI Roadmap, Morocco AI 2030, was reported as due to be unveiled in February 2026; its publication was not confirmed. The UM6P Toubkal system gives researchers access to high performance computing.
Power and grid
The US guide says growth in Casablanca may slow because of rising land and energy costs. No grid capacity figures were found.
Data centres and compute
| Site | Where | Status | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toubkal (African Supercomputing Center) Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), with OCP Group | Benguerir | Operating | 3.15 petaflops, over 69,000 CPU cores, 5 MW IT load, Tier IV design. Online 2020, launched February 2021. CPU-based, not a GPU AI system. (source) |
| Dakhla hyperscale data centre Consortium reported to include Naver, Nvidia and Lloyds Capital | Dakhla | Planned | 500 MW announced around June 2025. Single trade report; consortium and timeline unverified. (source) |
Rules and programmes
| Instrument | Kind | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Morocco 2030 | Policy | In force from 25 September 2024 | US Commercial Service guide. Names cloud, AI, connectivity and talent as enablers. |
| Law 09-08 on personal data | Law | In force | Supervised by the CNDP. The guide says some sectors face data localisation limits; which sectors was not specified. |
Checked on 2 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.