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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. Daily Maverick’s Lindsey Schutters explains.
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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