Morocco Data Center Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The Morocco Data Center Market covers spending on data center capacity in Morocco: the IT infrastructure installed in data halls (servers, storage and network equipment), power solutions, cooling systems and general construction for enterprise, colocation and hyperscale facilities, including modular builds. DC Market Insights values the Morocco Data Center Market at USD 260.51 million in 2025 and forecasts USD 2.04 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 22.87%. The 2025 value is built from capacity: 7 MW of IT load completed in 2025 and 13 MW completing in 2026, at USD 7.10 million of facility cost per MW in conventional halls and USD 9.90 million per MW in AI halls, gives USD 73.58 million of power, cooling and construction spend; IT fit-out of the new halls adds USD 26.63 million and IT refresh on an installed base of about 89 MW adds USD 160.31 million. Hyperscale data centers are the fastest-growing segment at 36.48% a year as AI campuses in Nouaceur and the north move into construction, and Dakhla and the South is the fastest-growing region at 37.01% a year because the 500 MW Dakhla green data center programme starts from a very small base.

Executive Summary

The Morocco Data Center Market size was valued at USD 153.08 million in 2020, reached USD 260.51 million in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 2.04 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 22.87% during the forecast period.

Report attribute	Details
Historical Period	2020-2024
Base Year	2025
Forecast Period	2026-2035
Morocco Data Center Market Size 2025	USD 260.51 Million
Morocco Data Center Market, CAGR	22.87%
Morocco Data Center Market Size 2035	USD 2.04 Billion

The Morocco Data Center Market grew at 11.22% a year between 2020 and 2025, and 2025 added 20.3% over 2024 as Orange Maroc’s Orange Tech facility and new enterprise rooms were built. Growth peaks in 2026 and 2027, at 40.6% and 46.9%, as the first AI phases in Nouaceur move from land allocation into construction, then slows to 11.1% in 2035 as the base grows.

Meatechwatch reports 23 operational data centres, and Uptime Institute data analysed by ICTworks and reported by Hespress places 17 of the 50 physically inspected Tier III and Tier IV data centers in Africa in Morocco, about 34% of the continental total. DC Market Insights counts about 96 MW of IT load at the end of 2025, including bank, government and telecom data halls, and forecasts 436 MW of completions between 2026 and 2035, taking the installed base to about 532 MW.

Market Scope: What Does the Morocco Data Center Market Cover?

The Morocco Data Center Market is the annual spend on building, equipping and refreshing data centers located in Morocco, valued in current US dollars, with 2025 as the base year and forecasts to 2035. DC Market Insights sizes it at USD 260.51 million in 2025.

Included. IT infrastructure installed in data halls (servers, storage and network equipment, bought for new halls or as refresh), power solutions (switchgear, transformers, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, batteries, generators and power distribution), cooling systems (chillers, computer room air handlers, liquid cooling and piping) and general construction (shell, fit-out, fire protection and physical security). Enterprise, colocation and hyperscale facilities are counted, including modular and prefabricated units.

Excluded. Land, utility-side grid and renewable generation assets, subsea cables and landing stations, software licences, colocation and cloud service revenues, electricity and operating costs.

How the segments fit together. The component, data center type, industry vertical, tier and build-type splits each re-cut the same USD 260.51 million total, and the regional split allocates it across five Moroccan sub-markets.

Market Drivers: What Drives the Morocco Data Center Market?

An AI pipeline led by an AI factory worth 12 billion Moroccan dirhams (MAD), about USD 1.29 billion, drives the Morocco Data Center Market, supported by data-residency rules and a state Cloud First roadmap for 2025-2030. DC Market Insights forecasts USD 538.10 million of spending in 2027, more than double the 2025 level.

A 140 MW Construction Pipeline and 400 MW in Planning Lift Completions to 67 MW a Year

An industry report cited by Le360 counts projects under construction representing 140 MW of capacity and another 400 MW in the planning phase. NAVER announced in June 2025, with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems and Lloyds Capital, a 500 MW renewable-powered data center in Morocco whose first phase is 40 MW of AI supercomputing with NVIDIA Blackwell (GB200) GPUs. In April 2026 Nexus Core Systems signed a memorandum to invest MAD 12 billion in an AI factory: 16 MW of IT load in Nouaceur first, then another 20 MW in northern Morocco, powered by renewable energy through TAQA Morocco. DC Market Insights does not assume the whole pipeline is built: the model completes 144 MW between 2026 and 2030 and 436 MW by 2035.

Data-Residency Rules Keep Sensitive Workloads in Moroccan Data Centers

Since 2021, regulation has required sensitive data to be hosted on national territory, according to the report cited by Le360. A cloud decree issued under Law 05-20 on cybersecurity and published in Bulletin Officiel No. 7352 requires level-1 qualified cloud providers to be companies under Moroccan law that run their operating and administration systems in Morocco. The national cloud roadmap for 2025-2030 makes cloud the default architecture for government digital platforms. Government users account for USD 55.75 million of 2025 data center spending in the DC Market Insights model, 21.4% of the total, and banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) users a further USD 58.88 million.

Cloud Spending of USD 981 Million by 2026 Pulls Hyperscale Capacity into Casablanca

Cloud spending in Morocco is projected to reach USD 981 million by the end of 2026 and nearly USD 2.7 billion in 2031, an average of 23.3% a year, according to the report cited by Le360. In April 2026 Oracle opened its first public cloud region in Morocco, in Casablanca, hosted with N+ONE Datacenters, and plans a second region in Settat; the US International Trade Administration (ITA) Morocco Country Commercial Guide puts the two regions at an estimated USD 140 million over five years. Hyperscale data centers hold 14.1% of 2025 value and 40.3% in 2035 by DC Market Insights estimates.

Market Trends: How Are Data Centers in Morocco Changing?

AI halls, renewable-powered campuses and neutral operators consolidating into larger platforms are reshaping the Morocco Data Center Market: DC Market Insights estimates the AI share of new capacity rises from 4% in 2025 to 44% in 2035.

GPU Halls Raise the AI Share of Spending from 5.1% to 48.9%

The first phase of the NAVER-led project is designed around NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 GPUs, and Morocco aims for artificial intelligence (AI) to add MAD 100 billion to gross domestic product by 2030, Digital Transition Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni has said, as reported by TelQuel; TelQuel adds that the plan targets 50,000 AI-related jobs and 200,000 graduates trained in AI skills by 2030. AI-related spending, covering AI hall construction, graphics processing unit (GPU) fit-out and refresh, rises from 5.1% of the Morocco Data Center Market in 2025 to 48.9% in 2035, by DC Market Insights estimates.

Renewable Supply Becomes Part of the Site Choice

Renewable energy rose to 46% of Morocco’s electricity mix in 2025 from 37% in 2021, according to Energy Transition Minister Leila Benali, as reported by The North Africa Post. Orange Tech in Casablanca, a 1.5 MW facility on a 15,000 square meter site, carries more than 1,000 solar panels generating about 700 kWp, and the Nexus AI factory is to be 100% renewable-powered through a strategic partnership with TAQA Morocco. DC Market Insights raises cooling’s share of facility spend as the AI share grows, so cooling systems grow fastest among components at 24.83% a year.

Neutral Operators Consolidate into Larger Platforms

Medasys’s entire capital has been transferred to 3MDC, renamed Arka, a holding that groups Maroc Datacenter, Munisys and Medasys under a strategy of Helios Investment Partners and Fipar-Holding, a CDG Invest subsidiary. Arka is expanding its Témara site and preparing a new data center in Casablanca. Colocation data centers grow 24.09% a year in the DC Market Insights model and reach 38.3% of the market in 2035.

Market Challenges: What Holds the Morocco Data Center Market Back?

About 4.7 TWh a year of power demand from the flagship campuses, nearly 10% of national electricity demand, is the main constraint DC Market Insights sees on the Morocco Data Center Market, followed by announcements that run ahead of financing.

Flagship Campuses Would Use Nearly 10% of National Electricity

The roughly 536 MW of flagship projects in Dakhla and Nouaceur would consume about 4.7 terawatt-hours a year, nearly 10% of Morocco’s electricity demand of about 49 terawatt-hours in 2025, according to The North Africa Post. State utility ONEE plans 11.6 GW of new renewable capacity and 2.6 GW of storage between 2026 and 2030, but Daba Finance noted that grid readiness and renewable stability may not reach required levels until 2035. DC Market Insights therefore keeps AI completions below 30 MW a year until 2030.

Announced Projects Run Ahead of Financing

Iozera, a Houston start-up, claimed a USD 500 million, 386 MW AI data center in Tetouan with operations by the second quarter of 2026, but did not release how it would be financed, and Hespress noted that it had no public record of building data centres. The first 40 MW phase of the 500 MW Nouaceur project had been expected in the first quarter of 2026 and has been delayed by several months. DC Market Insights treats such delays as the main downside in its low scenario.

Market Opportunities: What Is the Opportunity for a Data Center Facility in Morocco?

Hyperscale data centers, growing 36.48% a year, and AI halls in Nouaceur and the north are the largest new revenue pools in the Morocco Data Center Market; DC Market Insights values power, cooling and construction spend at USD 381.10 million in 2030.

Casablanca-Settat Keeps the Largest Build Pipeline

Casablanca-Settat accounts for USD 152.14 million of 2025 spending, and power, cooling and construction make up USD 41.44 million of it in the DC Market Insights matrix. The Casablanca-Settat Regional Council dedicated 666 hectares in Nouaceur to a planned 500 MW renewable-powered facility, the ITA counts over 25 data centers in Casablanca, and N+ONE Datacenters, founded in 2008, planned a 2,000 square meter facility, reportedly at Nouaceur, in addition to the two data centers it operated.

The North Becomes a Second Cluster

The Nexus AI factory’s second 20 MW phase is planned in northern Morocco, the Medusa submarine cable of over 8,700 km landed in Nador with Orange Morocco and inwi, and the minister has said she wants one of at least three data centers in the north. Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Oriental grows from USD 21.10 million in 2025 to USD 351.46 million in 2035 by DC Market Insights estimates, a CAGR of 32.48%.

Modular Data Centers in Morocco: How Big Is the Market for Modular Builds?

Modular and prefabricated data centers are worth USD 51.32 million in Morocco in 2025, 19.7% of the Morocco Data Center Market, and grow 27.09% a year to USD 563.97 million in 2035, by DC Market Insights estimates. Buyers looking for a modular data center for sale in Morocco choose between containerized all-in-one units for bank branches, ministries and edge sites and prefabricated power and cooling skids for phased campuses.

Phased campuses favor factory-built blocks. The large projects are planned in steps: 40 MW first for the 500 MW NAVER-led project, and 16 MW then 20 MW for the Nexus AI factory.

Suppliers active with the state. Vertiv has signed a memorandum of understanding with Morocco’s Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform covering digital infrastructure, cloud, AI, high-performance computing, data centres and the electrical and cooling solutions they need.

Pricing: How Much Does a Data Center Cost per MW in Morocco?

A conventional data center hall in Morocco costs about USD 7.10 million of power, cooling and construction per MW of IT load in 2025, and an AI hall about USD 9.90 million per MW. These are DC Market Insights estimates, excluding land and IT equipment.

Spend per MW (USD million)	2025	2030	2035
Facility, conventional hall	7.10	7.50	7.92
Facility, AI hall	9.90	9.51	9.14
IT fit-out, conventional hall	3.40	3.49	3.57
IT fit-out, AI hall	13.50	12.84	12.21
IT refresh per installed MW a year, conventional	1.80	1.84	1.87
AI share of new capacity	4%	38%	44%

Announced budgets give a cross-check: the Nexus AI factory implies about USD 35.8 million per MW (USD 1.29 billion for 36 MW), which includes GPU systems and sits above the model’s USD 23.40 million for an AI hall’s facility and IT fit-out in 2025. Iozera’s figures imply about USD 1.30 million per MW (USD 500 million for 386 MW), well below any facility cost, which is one reason DC Market Insights does not count that project in its base case. Both ratios are DC Market Insights calculations from the announced figures.

Standards and Regulation: Which Rules Shape Data Centers in Morocco?

Four sets of rules shape data centers in Morocco: the Law 05-20 cloud decree, Law 09-08 on personal data, Uptime Institute tier certification and the Digital Morocco 2030 strategy.

Law 05-20 cloud decree. Drafted by the General Directorate of Information Systems Security (DGSSI) and published in Bulletin Officiel No. 7352, the decree defines two levels of qualified cloud providers. Level-1 providers must be companies under Moroccan law with their operating and administration systems on national territory, and a two-year transition allows non-qualified providers where no national offer exists.

Law 09-08. Personal Data Protection Law No. 09-08 safeguards individuals’ personal information, as the ITA guide notes.

Uptime Institute tiers. inwi holds Tier III certification for data centers in Settat and Marrakech and for Technopolis Rabat since 2019, with a total data center area above 4,000 square meters, and Morocco hosts 17 of Africa’s 50 physically inspected Tier III and Tier IV sites, including facilities of Bank of Africa, Banque Centrale Populaire and Maroc Telecom.

Digital Morocco 2030 and the cloud roadmap. Digital Morocco 2030 was launched on 25 September 2024, according to the ITA guide. The national cloud roadmap for 2025-2030 sits inside Digital Morocco 2030 and adds a Cloud Center of Excellence and a National Cloud Observatory.

Market Segmentation: Which Segment Leads the Morocco Data Center Market?

Information technology (IT) infrastructure leads the Morocco Data Center Market with 71.8% of 2025 value, enterprise data centers lead data center types with 51.2%, and IT and telecom leads industry verticals with 31.8%. Hyperscale data centers are the fastest-growing segment at 36.48% a year, against 24.09% for colocation, because AI campuses are planned at a scale no Moroccan enterprise builds.

By Component: IT Infrastructure Leads with 71.8%

Component	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
IT Infrastructure	186.94	71.8%	1.46	22.81%
Power Solutions	33.40	12.8%	0.26	22.78%
General Construction	21.81	8.4%	0.16	21.68%
Cooling Systems	18.36	7.0%	0.17	24.83%

Refresh of the installed base is most of today’s IT spend, USD 160.31 million in 2025. Cooling systems grow fastest among components because AI halls need liquid cooling and larger chilled-water plants.

By Data Center Type: Enterprise Data Centers Lead with 51.2%

Data center type	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Enterprise Data Centers	133.38	51.2%	0.44	12.61%
Colocation Data Centers	90.40	34.7%	0.78	24.09%
Hyperscale Data Centers	36.73	14.1%	0.82	36.48%

Hyperscale data centers rise from USD 36.73 million to USD 823.49 million and reach 40.3% of the market in 2035, by DC Market Insights estimates, as the Nouaceur and northern AI phases come online.

By Industry Vertical: IT and Telecom Leads with 31.8%

Industry vertical	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
IT and Telecom	82.84	31.8%	0.73	24.27%
BFSI	58.88	22.6%	0.33	18.85%
Government	55.75	21.4%	0.37	20.83%
Retail	15.89	6.1%	0.12	22.26%
Healthcare	12.24	4.7%	0.11	24.12%
Others	34.91	13.4%	0.39	27.30%

By Tier Standard: Tier III Leads with 64.8%

Tier III facilities are worth USD 168.81 million in 2025 and USD 1.52 billion by 2035 (24.56% a year). Tier IV, at USD 31.52 million (12.1%), grows fastest at 27.42% a year, while Tier I and II rooms, at USD 60.18 million (23.1%), grow 10.92% a year as small server rooms move into colocation.

By Build Type: Traditional Builds Lead with 80.3%

Traditional builds account for USD 209.19 million in 2025 and USD 1.48 billion in 2035, growing 21.61% a year. Modular and prefabricated data centers grow 27.09% a year from USD 51.32 million as banks and phased campuses add capacity in blocks.

DC Exclusive: The Casablanca vs Dakhla Build-Cost Matrix

At USD 110.70 million in 2025, IT infrastructure in Casablanca-Settat is the single largest cell of the matrix and 42.5% of all Moroccan data center spending.

2025, USD million	IT Infrastructure	Power Solutions	Cooling Systems	General Construction	Total
Casablanca-Settat	110.70	18.90	10.40	12.14	152.14
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra	46.56	6.60	3.55	3.99	60.70
Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Oriental	12.75	3.64	2.06	2.65	21.10
Marrakech-Safi and Rest of Morocco	13.08	1.99	1.07	1.31	17.45
Dakhla and the South	3.85	2.27	1.28	1.72	9.12
Total	186.94	33.40	18.36	21.81	260.51

Casablanca-Settat spends 72.8% of its data center budget on IT infrastructure because its halls are full and refresh is the main spend. Dakhla and the South spends 57.8% on power, cooling and construction, against 27.2% in Casablanca-Settat, because its first sites are greenfield builds tied to new renewable supply.

The matrix is a DC Market Insights model, not a project count. It is built from 76 inputs: 36 capacity cohort values (18 years of completions and AI shares), 6 cost and refresh curves, 10 regional weights, 20 regional component weights, 1 starting installed base and 3 project cost ratios used as a cross-check. The method is on our research methodology page.

Regional Insights: Which Region Leads the Morocco Data Center Market?

Casablanca-Settat leads with 58.4% of 2025 value, and capacity follows a Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier corridor. In the Morocco Data Center Market, Dakhla and the South is the fastest-growing region at 37.01% a year because the 500 MW Dakhla programme adds greenfield capacity to a region with almost none today.

Casablanca-Settat Leads with 58.4% Share

Casablanca-Settat is worth USD 152.14 million in 2025 and USD 1.02 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 20.91%. The region hosts six of the facilities counted in the report cited by Le360, Oracle’s first public cloud region, Orange Tech and the Nouaceur AI land bank.

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Holds 23.3% Share

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra is worth USD 60.70 million in 2025 and USD 316.72 million by 2035, growing 17.96% a year. The region hosts four counted facilities, inwi’s Tier III Technopolis Rabat site and Arka’s expanding Témara campus.

Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Oriental Holds 8.1% Share

Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima and Oriental is worth USD 21.10 million in 2025 and USD 351.46 million by 2035, a CAGR of 32.48%, rising to 17.2% of the market as the second Nexus phase and cable-adjacent sites near Nador are built.

Marrakech-Safi and Rest of Morocco Holds 6.7% Share

Marrakech-Safi and the rest of Morocco, including Fès-Meknès and Benguerir, are worth USD 17.45 million in 2025 and USD 147.12 million by 2035, a CAGR of 23.76%, supported by inwi’s Tier III Marrakech data center.

Dakhla and the South Holds 3.5% Share

Dakhla and the South is worth USD 9.12 million in 2025 and USD 212.51 million by 2035, growing 37.01% a year to 10.4% of the market. The Dakhla programme targets 500 MW with a sovereign segment and a segment open to private investment, and the model builds only part of it by 2035 because strategic studies on governance and financing have just started.

Forecast Scenarios: How Could the 2035 Forecast Change?

The Morocco Data Center Market reaches USD 2.04 billion by 2035 in the base case, with a range of USD 1.43 billion to USD 2.47 billion across the low and high scenarios.

Scenario	Assumption from 2026	2035 (USD billion)	CAGR 2025-2035
Low	Completions 30% below base; AI share of new capacity 20% lower	1.43	18.57%
Base	Completions rise to 67 MW a year by 2035; AI share reaches 44%	2.04	22.87%
High	Completions 20% above base; AI share 12% higher	2.47	25.23%

The low case reflects grid delays and unfunded projects; the high case assumes the Nouaceur AI phases keep their 2027 schedule.

Competitive Insights: Which Data Center Companies in Morocco Lead the Morocco Data Center Market?

• Maroc Telecom
• inwi
• Orange Maroc
• N+ONE Datacenters
• Arka
• Maroc Datacenter
• Medasys
• Oracle
• NAVER Cloud
• Nexus Core Systems
• NVIDIA
• Lloyds Capital
• TAQA Morocco
• Vertiv
• Iozera
• Bank of Africa
• Banque Centrale Populaire

DC Market Insights estimates that the three largest colocation operators hold about 61.4% of 2025 colocation spending of USD 90.40 million, based on certified sites, floor area and announced capacity. Among operating sites, inwi has three Uptime Institute certified data centers, Orange Maroc added the 1.5 MW Orange Tech facility, and Maroc Telecom’s sites are in the Uptime Institute database. In the AI pipeline, the NAVER-led consortium with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems and Lloyds Capital leads with 500 MW announced, and Oracle Cloud is the only cloud provider with an active presence in Morocco, with cloud zones planned in Casablanca and Settat, according to the report cited by Le360.

Recent Developments

• In June 2025, NAVER announced a 500 MW renewable-powered data center in Morocco with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems and Lloyds Capital, starting with 40 MW of GB200 GPUs (Source: NAVER press release).
• In November 2025, Orange Maroc opened Orange Tech, a 1.5 MW data center in Casablanca (Source: Ecofin Agency report).
• In December 2025, the Medusa submarine cable landed in Nador with Orange Morocco and inwi (Source: European Commission news release).
• In April 2026, Oracle opened its first public cloud region in Morocco, in Casablanca, hosted with N+ONE Datacenters (Source: Morocco World News report).
• In April 2026, Nexus Core Systems signed a memorandum to invest MAD 12 billion in a 36 MW AI factory in Nouaceur and northern Morocco (Source: Developing Telecoms report).
• In April 2026, ministries, the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab authorities, the Mohammed VI Investment Fund and CDG signed the agreement launching the 500 MW Dakhla green data center programme (Source: Médias24 report).

We follow these launches, licences and financings as they happen in our data center industry updates. Related reports: Morocco Data Center Colocation Market and Morocco Data Center Infrastructure Market.

Methodology: How We Built the Morocco Data Center Market Model

DC Market Insights built the Morocco Data Center Market bottom-up from 18 annual completion cohorts (2019 to 2036), each split into conventional and AI halls, starting from an installed base of 60 MW of IT load at the end of 2018 and reaching about 96 MW at the end of 2025. Facility spend (USD 7.10 million per MW conventional, USD 9.90 million AI, in 2025) is recognized half in the year before completion and half in the completion year. IT spend adds fit-out of new halls (USD 3.40 million per MW conventional, USD 13.50 million per MW AI) and refresh of USD 1.80 million per MW a year on the conventional base and USD 2.70 million on the AI base. The total was split by 4 components, 3 data center types, 6 industry verticals, 3 tier groups, 2 build types and 5 regions, and every split sums to the market total. The result was checked top-down against announced project costs (USD 35.8 million per MW for the Nexus AI factory including GPUs), against 140 MW under construction, and against cloud spending of USD 981 million expected in 2026.