{
  "id": 613,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28404v1",
  "title": "Financing Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure: Mapping AI Infrastructure Investment and Compute Governance Across Africa",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence depends on large-scale compute resources and their supporting infrastructure. However, AI governance debates treat compute primarily as a technical input rather than as an outcome of investment, ownership, and financial control. This paper examines AI infrastructure investment flows across Africa through a systematic analysis of 46 publicly announced projects totalling USD $12.7 billion between 2019 and 2025. Using a value chain framework, we analyze who invests in AI-rel",
  "authors": "Kai-Hsin Hung, Sumaya Nur Adan, Krupa Suchak, Armita Sadeghian Barzoki, Kofi Yeboah, Mohammad Amir Anwar",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "africa",
  "published_at": "2026-06-24T13:14:02.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:41.549Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/613",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28404v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}