Morocco is aiming to add 100 billion dirhams ($10 billion) to its gross domestic product through artificial intelligence by 2030, the minister responsible for digital transition said on Monday, as the country accelerates investment in training programmes, sovereign data centres and cloud services.
Speaking at a conference in Rabat, Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni said Morocco, whose economy is currently valued at about $170 billion, plans to establish artificial intelligence centres connected to universities and the private sector, while integrating AI solutions into public administration and industrial activity, according to Reuters.
Seghrouchni explained that most of the projected GDP increase would come from expanding domestic data-processing capacity through sovereign data centres, scaling up cloud computing and fibre-optic infrastructure, and developing a workforce with strong AI skills to support the rollout of AI applications across government and industry.
Under the strategy, Morocco expects to create 50,000 jobs linked to artificial intelligence and train 200,000 graduates in AI-related skills by 2030.
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As part of this push, Seghrouchni on Monday signed a partnership agreement with France’s Mistral AI to support the development of generative AI tools in Morocco.
“We want to turn Morocco into a future excellence hub in AI and data science,” she said. The minister added that the government is also preparing legislation to regulate artificial intelligence.
Morocco has allocated 11 billion dirhams ($1.2 billion) to its digital transformation strategy for the 2024–2026 period, which includes funding for AI initiatives and the expansion of fibre-optic networks.
Separately, the country is planning to build a 500-megawatt data centre powered by renewable energy in the southern city of Dakhla, a project aimed at strengthening the security and sovereignty of national data storage.
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