en.Wedoany.com Reported - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune inaugurated the National Digital Service Center in Mohammadia, Algiers Province, on July 5. The ceremony was held on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of Independence Day, with the Minister of Digitalization and Statistics, Meriem Benmouloud, in attendance.

The center operates on an active-active architecture, based on two data centers built in Algiers and Blida. Both sites process requests simultaneously in real time, ensuring uninterrupted service in the event of a failure at one site. The design achieves an availability rate of 99.98%, meaning less than two hours of downtime per year, with real-time data synchronization and proactive anomaly detection to prevent impacts on service quality.

This infrastructure currently hosts data from all public administrative departments in Algeria, reducing reliance on foreign infrastructure. The center ensures interoperability between ministries through a unified national portal, ultimately enabling the full digitalization of forty public services, accessible to users via digital identity. The construction of the center was undertaken by Huawei.

This development aligns with the digital sovereignty movement in Africa. According to the report "Data Centres in Africa 2026" published by the African Data Centres Association (ADCA), Africa accounts for 0.6% of global data center capacity but is home to 19% of the world's population. Almost all of this capacity remains concentrated in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt.

In 2025, Algeria ranked among the ten African countries with the most abundant data center capacity. The country inaugurated its first data center in Constantine in February 2023, and in March 2025, it put into operation a second data center dedicated to artificial intelligence in Oran.