AfrPowerOS Weekly

2026-08-16 · 20 countries tracked · every fact sourced

This week in the dataset

• 10 exploring
• 7 preparing
• 1 under construction
• 1 operating a commercial plant
• 1 no active program

Confidence: 20 of 20 records Verified from primary sources.

Dataset changes (last 7 days): - ab01979 feat(data): expand dataset to 20 countries, add homepage contribute CTA - 95663bd feat: initial AfrPowerOS dataset and open-source project skeleton

Why this matters

Africa hosts under 2% of global data-center capacity, and ~600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lack electricity. Power — not compute — is the binding constraint on the continent's AI and industrial future. AfrPowerOS tracks the civilian nuclear programs emerging to close that gap.

Explore the data

• Live map: https://kawacukennedy.github.io/afrpoweros/
• Full dataset: https://github.com/kawacukennedy/afrpoweros/blob/main/data/afrpoweros.json
• Corrections welcome: https://github.com/kawacukennedy/afrpoweros/issues
• Archive: https://buttondown.com/kawacu/archive/

Every record carries a confidence label (Verified / Inference / Speculation / Unverified). Nothing is invented — if we can't source it, we mark it or omit it. No hype, no ads.