Changelog

Dataset and project changes, newest first. Versions are YYYY.MM, bumped when records or scope change materially. Record-level currency is tracked per record in last_verified — see docs/SCHEMA.md.

2026.08 — unreleased

Website

• Renamed the site to Africa Compute Tracker, matching the domain.
• Capacity is now reported as disclosed running and disclosed planned IT load, never one blended total, alongside how many records disclose any figure.
• Added CSV and JSON downloads with a field guide (/data/), country and operator pages, an about page and this changelog on the site.
• Sources whose original URL has not been confirmed are shown without a link instead of pointing at a placeholder address.
• Maintainer notes (update reminders, record-history remarks) moved out of public facility text into YAML comments.
• Maps are now a static SVG drawn at build time, with the interactive map loading only on request. Pages with a map went from about 4.5 MB to under 60 KB.
• Shorter page titles that fit in search results, accessibility fixes on facility pages, and no canonical URL on the 404 page.
• Icons for every platform (favicon at 16/32/48 px, Apple touch, Android and maskable install icons), generated from one definition with npm run icons. Share cards now show each facility’s disclosed capacity and verification date, and the data, methodology, glossary, about, changelog and countries pages have their own cards.

Documentation

• Added docs/SCOPE.md as the single source of truth for geographic coverage, inclusion criteria, exclusions, and how capacity figures should be read. Scope had previously been stated in several places with conflicting country lists.
• Added docs/SCHEMA.md documenting field groups, trust tiers, confidence levels, the claims model, and the fact/claim/analysis separation.
• Added CITATION.cff so the dataset can be cited from GitHub and reference managers.
• Added this changelog.

Corrections

• Stated scope corrected from “South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria (v1)” to the five countries actually present in the dataset: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco.
• The Cassava AI Factory press release now links to its real URL on ADC CPT1, NBO1, LOS1 and Cassava AI Factory Morocco; it was already cited with that URL on two other records.
• G42 / Microsoft Kenya now has region-level coordinates (Olkaria geothermal area), so it appears on the map.
• (planned) dropped from the Cassava AI Factory Egypt and Morocco names; status already says so.
• A recorded 0 MW running load on a facility that is not yet built counts as undisclosed, not as a disclosed figure, in totals, tables and the CSV.

2026.07

• Olkaria (Kenya) status updated to paused following the suspension of the Microsoft–G42 project.

Earlier

Records were added and revised before this changelog existed; see the git history of data/facilities/ for the full record.