Home Computing Emerging Tech News Nigeria just became home to Africa's first distributed AI data center, and it's built into 50,000 lamp posts Conflow Power Group SpaceX has its own ambitious plans for AI data centers in space , while Microsoft has explored the idea by sinking them underwater . However, building AI data centers is expensive and power-intensive. This is why a UK firm wants to build one using street lamp posts in Nigeria, and it has already signed a deal to do it. Warwickshire-based Conflow Power Group has agreed with Nigeria’s Katsina State Government to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts called iLamps across the state (via BBC ). Each unit runs on a cylindrical solar panel and battery, powering a low-energy Nvidia chip that draws just 15 watts. Networked together, CPG says the units would deliver 13.75 petaOPS of combined computing power without pulling a single watt from the grid.…