{"content":"The Tech Capital Location Award is the only annual prize to recognise a geography for its attractiveness and investor friendly climate when dealing with digital infrastructure investors and operators. This accolade is open to all administrative divisions within a country (eg.: city, metro, province, state) and can be submitted by an association, government body, operators, and others. Nominations must explain how the location has worked to attract digital infrastructure investment, the benefits of said geography, and include factual capital allocations by new players.\r\n\r\nThe 2023 shortlist includes:\r\n\r\n&bull; Eastern & Central Africa, represented by Raxio Data Centres\r\n&bull; Iceland, represented by atNorth\r\n&bull; Mexico, represented by Layer 9 Data Centers\r\n&bull; Portugal, represented by Start Campus\r\n&bull; Sweden, represented by Node Pole"}