Data-center law in Niger

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-05

Niger has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, or utility statute; a data-center project falls under the general investment framework of Loi n° 2014-09 du 16 avril 2014 portant Code des investissements en République du Niger.

The Code names eighteen eligible activity categories, spanning agriculture, manufacturing, energy, mining and quarrying, gas, chemicals, crafts, audiovisual and sports equipment, health facilities, transport, education, industrial maintenance, tourism, printing and publishing, social housing, and soil and environmental laboratories, without naming information technology, telecommunications, or data infrastructure as a distinct sector. No provision located addresses electricity grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions specifically.

Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Loi n° 2014-09, Code des investissements

In force

Loi n° 2014-09, Code des investissements en République du Niger, du 16 avril 2014

Applies to both

Article 1 states the Code's purpose as favouring the development of socio-economic activities by stimulating investment, and article 4 lists eighteen eligible activity categories open to any natural or legal person regardless of nationality, none of them information technology, telecommunications, or data-center infrastructure; article 5 excludes purely commercial activities and mineral and petroleum exploration, which fall instead under the OHADA uniform acts, the Mining Code, and the Petroleum Code.

Article 16 institutes three privileged regimes (a promotional regime, a conventional regime, and a free-zone regime), and an approved enterprise receives a total exemption from duties and taxes, including value-added tax, on the equipment, materials and services needed to carry out its investment programme during the realisation phase (article 32), and further exemptions from customs duties and from the lump-sum minimum tax, the business tax and the property tax during the operating phase (articles 34 and 35).

No provision addresses electricity grid interconnection, water utilities, construction permitting, or air emissions as such; permitting instead runs through a single administrative window (guichet unique) created by article 3.

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