West Africa’s power grids are strained, its technical labour pool is thin, and its factories, hospitals and data centres are ageing faster than budgets allow for replacement. That combination, according to one of the region’s senior infrastructure executives, is pushing companies toward a strategy that was once considered a luxury: paying outside experts to tell them what’s actually wrong before it breaks.
“Infrastructure is no longer just an operational asset, it is a strategic determinant of performance, resilience, and competitiveness,” Nnadozie Ogbuehi, vice president for services in Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric, wrote in an opinion piece.
The argument lands at a moment when West African industry is caught between two forces pulling in opposite directions. Demand for cloud computing, mining output and manufacturing capacity is climbing. But the physical systems meant to support that growth — transformers, backup power, cooling equipment — are often decades old and were never
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