June 17, 2024 Africa Data Centres
Cassava Technologies group ADC has secured a bespoke financing solution worth ZAR2 billion ($109m) arranged by the South African banking group RMB. The funding will allow the company to expand its data center capacity and meet the growing demand for cloud computing in South Africa – expanding its...
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May 23, 2023 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has shared that it has formed a strategic partnership with the London Internet Exchange (LINX) to pursue growth opportunities in current and new markets in Africa. ADC plans to launch in 10 of Africa's economic hubs, including South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda,...
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May 21, 2023 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced that it is set to begin work on a new facility based on its recently acquired land in the Central Business District of Accra, Ghana, on a part of the former Trade Fair showgrounds site. The data center will begin with an initial 10 MW, expandable to 30MW,...
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May 19, 2023 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres (ADC) will soon initiate construction on a new data center in Accra, Ghana. This week, the company revealed that it would soon begin construction on newly acquired land in the capital city's Central Business District. The International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) of...
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March 27, 2023 Africa Data Centres
TechAccess, a blend integrator, has partnered with Africa Data Centres, a Cassava second-class technology and a group of Africans with a common interest in technology, to launch a Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution. The DCIM solution will be provided by EkkoSense and...
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March 14, 2023 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced the signing of a new 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Distributed Power Africa (DPA) to procure solar energy for its South African operations. Through the deal, the company will be supplied via wheeling, which occurs by delivering renewable...
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January 27, 2023 Africa Data Centres
Cassava Technologies subsidiary Africa Data Centres has begun constructing its new data center in Cape Town, South Africa, the second data center in the city. Located in the north of the city, it is primed to have an IT load of 20MW, spanning 12,000 square meters (129,150 sq ft). Commenting about...
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December 02, 2022 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it is expanding its Sameer data center site in Nairobi, Kenya, by up to 15 MW. According to ADC, the first 5MW phase of the build will be complete by the first half of 2024. This first phase will reportedly bring five times more than the current...
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November 29, 2022 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced that it is developing its first data center in Kigali, Rwanda. According to the company, the purpose-built data center will offer 2MW of capacity. ADC also revealed that it would break ground on the data center in Q1 2023. It, however, did not reveal the exact...
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June 16, 2022 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to expand its presence in South Africa. The company revealed that it would be developing a 20MW data center in the country. The data center will span 15,000 square meters (161,458 square feet) across eight data halls. According to ADC, the data center...
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June 08, 2022 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to build a 30MW data center in Accra, Ghana, adding to its presence in Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos, Nigeria; Lomé, Togo; and Samrand and Midrand, South Africa. Further details around when the facility will go live are yet to be released. Tesh Durvasula, ADC...
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December 09, 2021 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced that it has chosen Distributed Power Technologies (DPT) to provide its South African data centers with renewable energy and storage. This announcement follows news that the company recently secured nearly R4 billion to expand and develop its two data centers in...
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November 23, 2021 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans to more than double its capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company says its footprint in the region would be increased to 100MW. ADC currently has two campuses in Johannesburg which will have 20MW of capacity each upon full build-out. In...
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November 12, 2021 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has revealed its plans for two new data centers in Nairobi, Kenya. The data center firm said it had begun work on a second data center with up to 20MW of IT capacity. It also says it is already securing land for a third data center. According to Africa Data Centres, the two...
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September 29, 2021 Africa Data Centres
Liquid has announced that it has opened its fifth mega data center in South Africa, which has a capacity of 20MW. Going forward, the company is targeting a further 10 data centers across Africa's largest cities. Liquid's founder Strive Masiyiwa made the announcement. These projects are being...
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September 06, 2021 Africa Data Centres
Africa Data Centres has announced its plans to spend $500 million building 10 data centers across the African continent in two years. It hopes to double its data center footprint with this investment. Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt are some of the countries it plans to invest in. The Company...
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September 01, 2021 Africa Data Centres
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...
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