Senegal

Name: Senegal
Address: SN

Senegal has a state data centre at Diamniadio built to host government data at home, and a draft update to its 2008 data protection law was unveiled in January 2026.

Senegal's government data centre at the Diamniadio park was inaugurated in June 2021 to keep state data in the country. The national AI strategy was presented on 14 September 2023 and covers governance, ethics and data sovereignty, but the coverage read gives no compute elements. The 2008 data protection law does not require localisation, and a draft modernisation was reported in January 2026. Power context: Senelec added battery storage in 2025. No national supercomputing programme was found.

AI policy and activity

A national AI strategy was presented by the communications and digital ministry on 14 September 2023, with a final version due for presidential validation. The New Deal Technologique Horizon 2034 sets digital sovereignty as a pillar. We could not confirm formal adoption of the AI strategy.

Power and grid

Reported. Senelec commissioned 10 MW and 20 MWh of battery storage alongside an existing 16 MW solar plant (announced 7 August 2025) to reduce blackouts. No data centre specific grid terms found. No national supercomputing programme found.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
Diamniadio government data centre ADIE (state information agency), Huawei as technology partner	Diamniadio Digital Technology Park	Operating	Reported. Inaugurated 22 June 2021. An earlier report gives 500 square metres and a cost of 46 billion CFA francs, financed by a Chinese loan. No power figure published in the sources read. Intended to host all government data and applications. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Law No. 2008-12 on personal data protection Read the cited source	Law	In force from 25 January 2008	Reported. Law-firm digest. The Commission de Donnees Personnelles oversees it. Transfers need prior notification and sufficient protection abroad. No mandatory data localisation.
Draft modernisation of the data protection framework Read the cited source	Law	Proposed	Reported. Law-firm digest says a draft was unveiled in January 2026 and further legislation on critical information infrastructure is planned. Contents not read.
National AI strategy Read the cited source	Policy	Proposed	Reported. Local news report of the 14 September 2023 presentation. Names data sovereignty as a priority. States no compute or data centre measures.

Checked on 3 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.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Senegal: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/senegal

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@misc{computefinder_countries_senegal,
  title        = {Senegal: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0072}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0072},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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