The Symbiotic Paradox: AI, Supply Chains and South Africa

AI is being deployed to repair the world's fractured supply chains — even as the capital flooding into AI infrastructure strains the copper, transformers and power grids those chains depend on. South Africa sits inside that paradox three times over: critical-minerals supplier, the continent's largest data-centre hub, and a grid that beat load-shedding just in time to face a new demand wave.