Mar 13, 2024 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Lagos
Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through N...
Nov 07, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | MainOne MDX-i
Equinix-owned MainOne this week announced the launch of its new Tier III-quality data center in the Village of ICT & Biotechnology of Côte d'Ivoire in Grand Bassam, on the outskirts of Abidjan. Abayomi Adebanjo, regional business head at MainOne, said, “As we round up the year, [we are] ex...
Mar 01, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | MainOne MDX-i
The MainOne subsidiary in Ghana, MDXi Appolonia, recently received its Tier III constructed facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute. MainOne is an Equinix company. With the top four certifications in the sector, including the Tier III Constructed Facility certification, TCCF, t...
Dec 07, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | MainOne MDX-i
MDXi Appolonia, the data center subsidiary of MainOne, an Equinix company, has announced that it had received Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute. The facility features private data center suites, enterprise-grade 24×7 multi-level security and video su...
Apr 08, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | MainOne MDX-i
MaineOne has announced the opening of its second facility in Lagos, Nigeria. The West African data center firm recently acquired by Equinix opened the Lekki II data center earlier in the week. MDXi, a subsidiary of MainOne, first announced it was developing the data center in October last y...
Dec 07, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | MainOne MDX-i
Equinix has announced that it is acquiring West Africa’s data center company MainOne for $320 million. The acquisition sees Equinix expand its operations into Africa for the first time. Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010 through its MDXi brand. The company has three data centers in operati...
Oct 12, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | MainOne MDX-i
MDXi, a MainOne company, has announced that four months after the launch of its Tier III facility in Appolonia City, Accra, Ghana, it is expanding its data center facilities in Lekki, Lagos.According to reports, the new Tier III data center is being deployed on a “very aggressive timeline.” M...
Sep 01, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | MainOne MDX-i
International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...
May 24, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | MainOne MDX-i
MainOne, a Nigerian Telco, has announced its plans to expand its data centers across West Africa. The Company plans to double its storage capacity over the next two years. The data center capacity will increase from 700 racks to 900 racks next year. It also plans to expand its racks by 300 ...