Casablanca
Morocco's largest city and main business centre, on The Atlantic coast.
Casablanca is due to host the first named site of Morocco's planned 180 MW Nexus AI Factory: a 20 MW AI data centre whose design and permit work went to FiveNines Group in a deal announced on 8 October 2026.
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Morocco's largest city had 3,218,036 people in the city proper at the 2024 census. It is the country's economic and business centre, the seat of the Casablanca-Settat region and home to one of Africa's largest artificial ports.
The planned 20 MW AI site near the city opens the Nexus AI Factory, a platform launched at GITEX Africa in Marrakech in April 2026 under a memorandum with Moroccan authorities and meant to run entirely on renewable power. Nexus Core Systems is developing it, with FiveNines Group on early design and permits, Zutari as lead design consultant and Fonto Energy due to deliver the substation.
As of October 2026 the Casablanca project had not reached construction, and its permits and grid connection were still to be won. Power has already stopped one African AI campus: Kenya suspended the Microsoft-G42 geothermal campus at Olkaria over its power demand.
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