Democratic Republic of the Congo

Name: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Address: CD

The DRC's 2023 Digital Code underpins a February 2026 order requiring authorisation for data centres, cloud services and other digital activities by 30 June 2026.

Ordinance-Law No. 23/010 of 13 March 2023 is the Digital Code. A ministerial order of the Ministry of Digital Economy, reported as published on 11 February 2026, sets the conditions and procedure for authorising digital activities, including data centres, cloud services, qualified trust services and dominant platforms, with a compliance deadline of 30 June 2026, after which the source says unauthorised activity is unlawful. The source says the regulator examines applications and is to define which digital services count as essential. No named data centre or grid information was found.

AI policy and activity

The pages read mention no AI rules.

Power and grid

No data centre was found for the DRC in the pages read, and no grid or power rule for large loads was found.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Ordinance-Law No. 23/010 of 13 March 2023 (Digital Code) Read the cited source	Law	In force from 13 March 2023	Reported. MoFo privacy library lists the Digital Code as the national digital and privacy law and gives its date. The page does not describe its provisions or regulator. The date shown is the date of the ordinance-law.
Ministerial order CAB/MIN/ECONUM/AKIM/MLNS/ALM/04/2026 on authorisation of digital activities and services Read the cited source	Policy	In force	Reported. Law-and-finance news site summary. It gives 11 February 2026 as the publication date, lists data centres and cloud services among the activities needing authorisation, a 30-day examination period for complete applications, 15 working days for the ministerial decision after the regulator's opinion, and a compliance deadline of 30 June 2026. We did not read the order itself, so its commencement date is left null.

Recorded facility evidence

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Raxio DR Congo DRC1 Record checked 12 November 2026. Inspect its evidence and limits.

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 If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.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). Democratic Republic of the Congo: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/democratic-republic-of-the-congo

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_democratic_republic_of_the_congo,
  title        = {Democratic Republic of the Congo: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0104}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0104},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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