Gabon

Name: Gabon
Address: GA

Gabon amended its data protection law in 2023 to cover AI and automated decisions, and a Tier III data centre near Libreville is reported open in July 2026.

Law No. 025/2023 of 12 July 2023 amends the 2011 data protection law, adds definitions covering AI and machine learning, restricts automated decisions and sets up the APDPVP authority. The national digital agency ANINF lists related laws on cybersecurity (Law 27/2023) and electronic transactions (Law 25/2021) and describes a national data centre project for digital sovereignty. W.Media reports that ST Digital opened a Tier III facility in the Nkok special economic zone on 3 July 2026, with 1 MW of electrical power in its first phase.

AI policy and activity

Law 025/2023 adds AI and machine learning to its definitions and restricts automated decision-making. No standalone AI law was found.

Power and grid

No grid or power rule for large loads was found. W.Media reports the Nkok facility draws part of its energy from a photovoltaic plant.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
ST Digital Gabon Tier III data centre ST Digital	Nkok Special Economic Zone, near Libreville	Operating	Reported. W.Media says it opened on 3 July 2026, is Tier III, offers 1 MW of electrical power and up to 3,000 servers in a modular design, with 65 square metres of colocation space in the first phase, 22 per cent of energy from a photovoltaic plant, and connections to the ACE and SAT-3/WASC cables. These are first-phase figures as reported and are not totals. We did not confirm that it is the same project as the ANINF national data centre. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Law No. 025/2023 of 12 July 2023 amending Law No. 001/2011 on personal data protection Read the cited source	Law	In force from 12 July 2023	Primary. Text hosted by the francophone data protection authorities association. It creates the APDPVP, requires declarations to state any transfers to states outside the sub-regional and regional organisations that do not ensure sufficient protection, and requires non-resident processors using means in Gabon to appoint a representative there. No explicit data residency rule is stated. The date shown is the date of the law, and commencement was not separately confirmed.
National data centre project and digital laws (ANINF) Read the cited source	Programme	Planned	Primary. ANINF project page describes a national data centre for secured hosting of critical data for public bodies, businesses and citizens, with cloud services. It gives no site, timeline or capacity. A separate ANINF page (https://aninf.ga/en/2024/09/25/) lists Law 25/2023, Law 27/2023 on cybersecurity and cybercrime and Law 25/2021 on electronic transactions; we did not read those texts.

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). Gabon: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/gabon

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@misc{computefinder_countries_gabon,
  title        = {Gabon: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0108}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0108},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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