South Africa is in the grip of an infrastructure supercycle, but it isn’t roads or rails. It is the rise of the AI Factory, windowless fortresses consuming small cities worth of power. 

Reporting by: 
Lindsey Schutters & Tony Carnie 
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi 
Filmed by: Joel Seboa 
Produced by: Emilie Gambade 
Creative Lead by: Malibongwe Tyilo 
Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn 

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