Nairobi, March 3 -- Kenya has launched a global appeal for tech investors to build artificial intelligence (AI)-capable data centres in the race to close the growing infrastructure gap.

Special Envoy for Technology to the United Nations, Philip Thigo, has urged global investors to channel capital into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, warning that Kenya risks missing out on the next phase of the digital world.

Data centres are the main infrastructure powering AI by providing the high computing power, specialised computer hardware and the large storage needed to train and deploy complex language models.

Mr Thigo told investors and technology firms at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, that African economies will s...