AfrPowerOS Weekly

2026-09-29 · 21 countries tracked · every fact sourced

This week in the dataset

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

Confidence: 21 of 21 records Verified from primary sources.

Dataset changes (last 7 days): - ee7a34d feat(data): assertion-level confidence labels for Ghana, Uganda and Senegal (batch 1 of 3) (#36) - eabd95b feat(data): assertion-level confidence labels for countries 1-5, rebuilt on current main (#14) - b980f9d feat(data): add Togo as 21st country (rebuilt on current main) (#16) - 4481ab0 fix(data): disambiguate Uganda 2031 target (initial 1,000 MW) from 8.4 GW plant capacity (#35)

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.