Nairobi, Sept. 8 -- The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) plans to introduce a standalone licence for data centres as investment in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure expands.

The regulator says the proposed framework will improve oversight of data centre operations and align Kenya's licensing regime with those of other jurisdictions.

The proposal would remove commercial co-location data centres from the Network Facilities Provider (NFP) Tier 2 category and place them under a dedicated regulatory regime. Currently, the NFP Tier 2 licence covers physical digital infrastructure, including co-location facilities.

"CA proposes to introduce a standalone Data Centre licence category, rather than regulate co-location d...