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Tetracore and Huawei Plan 20MW Gas-powered Data Center in Nigeria

West African energy firm Tetracore Energy Group plans a $400 million data center in Nigeria in partnership with Huawei and Inspirive Technologies.The planned 20MW facility will be located at Tetracore’s energy park in Atakobo, Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, and is designed to meet Tier III ...

March 26, 2026

Nigeria

xneelo Starts Construction on Second Data Center in Johannesburg

South African colocation and hosting firm xneelo this week announced it has started construction on a new facility in the Samrand area of the city. Full details weren’t shared, but xneelo said the new facility will be modeled on its first Samrand data center's “proven design” while introducin...

February 07, 2026

South Africa

WIOCC Secures Additional $65m in Sustainability-Linked Loans

African digital infrastructure provider WIOCC Group has raised $65 million in debt financing to fund the expansion of digital infrastructure across Africa. The funding is secured through sustainability-linked debt financing, arranged by International Finance Corporation (IFC), Proparco, Emergi...

December 23, 2025

Africa

Helios and Fipar Merge Maroc Datacenter, Munisys, and Medasys into New Company

Helios Investment Partners and Fipar-Holding, a subsidiary of CDG Invest, this week announced the creation of 3MDC, a new digital infrastructure platform, as they have merged three Moroccan companies into a new IT services player.The new unit brings together three existing Moroccan players wit...

December 09, 2025

Morocco

Ethiopian Electric Utility Leases Space at Wing Ddata Center

Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) has signed an agreement with Wingu.Africa to lease space at the latter's data center in Addis Ababa. EEU hopes to improve the reliability, security, and efficiency of its operations through the deployment, enabling it to better serve its customers across Ethiop...

November 27, 2025

Addis Ababa

UAE to Invest $1bn in AI Infrastructure across Africa

The UAE has said that it will invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure across Africa. The announcement was made on Saturday at the G20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg by UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri, who said that the funds would “provide access to AI computing power, techni...

November 24, 2025

Africa

Cavaleros Group Launches Data Center Unit

South African real estate firm the Cavaleros Group is looking to move into the data center sector with plans for two campuses and has launched a new unit, Cosmas Data Cities, which plans to develop two sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town.“For over five decades, the Cavaleros Group has built a ...

November 14, 2025

South Africa

Indus Towers to Boost Infra Footprint to Africa

Indian tower company Indus Towers has outlined plans to expand its footprint into Africa. The company's board has approved plans to expand its tower portfolio into Africa, kicking off with Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.In the announcement, Indus has said that it will leverage its financial posit...

September 05, 2025

Africa

Teraco Launches Second Phase of JB4 Data Center Campus

South African data center company Teraco has expanded its data center outside Johannesburg. The Digital Realty subsidiary said the 30MW addition makes JB4 the largest standalone data center in Africa, serving 50MW of critical IT power load. The firm also said it is the first time 5MW data hall...

August 11, 2025

South Africa

Naver Plans 500MW Facility in Morocco

Naver Cloud this week announced a partnership with Nvidia, Nexus Core Systems, and investment firm Lloyds Capital to build a 500MW AI data center in Morocco. The project aims to provide sovereign AI computing services throughout the EMEA region, which encompasses Europe, the Middle East, and A...

June 13, 2025

Morocco

IHS Towers to sell Rwandan Operations to Paradigm Tower Ventures

Tower firm IHS Holding Limited has reached an agreement with Paradigm Tower Ventures for the acquisition of its 1,465 tower sites in Rwanda for an enterprise value of $274.5 million. IHS said it expects the sale of IHS Rwanda Limited to close in the second half of 2025, pending government and ...

May 23, 2025

Rwanda

9Mobile blames network outage on data center fire in Lagos

Nigerian mobile network operator 9Mobile has blamed a network outage this week on a fire incident at its main data center in Lagos. The fire is said to have happened on Tuesday night (December 17), leading to network issues for 9Mobile's customers yesterday. Its customers have taken to social...

December 19, 2024

Nigeria

Africa50 invests in Egypt’s Raya Data Center

Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investor and asset manager, this week announced a $15m equity investment in RDC to fund the development of a greenfield Tier III-quality data center in Egypt. A Raya Holding stock exchange filing notes through the investment, Africa50 will acquire a 42....

December 14, 2024

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Telecom Namibia inaugurates cable landing station in Swakopmund

Telecom Namibia has inaugurated its cable landing station in Swakopmund, Namibia, activating its capacity on Google’s Equiano subsea cable which connects Namibia to Europe via Portugal and to the rest of Africa, via Cape Town and Johannesburg. The cable will help to build resilience in light ...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Busamed migrates to private cloud environment with DataCentrix

Private South African hospital group Busamed has migrated to a private cloud environment with Datacentrix, consolidating seven on-premise data centers into a single central environment.“Due to our acquisitions, the organization had not only attained new businesses but had inherited the technol...

July 06, 2024

South Africa

WIOCC secures green financing to fund OADC roll-out

Pan-African data center and fiber group WIOCC has secured green financing deal fromthe International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco to fund its data center and fiber roll-out in three African countries.“We are excited to conclude this next stage of our capital raise, which will enable ...

June 21, 2024

Nigeria

2Africa cable now live between South Africa and Kenya

Airtel Africa announced on LinkedIn that a large portion of the 2Africa cable, connecting Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, is now operational. It currently is the world’s largest subsea cable and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The cable is e...

June 14, 2024

South Africa

DPA Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa

Digital Parks Africa (DPA) has revealed plans to extend its Samrand data center campus outside Johannesburg, South Africa by 4.5MW, adding 810 sqm and 570 racks as it currently offers more than 1,620 sqm of dedicated whitespace with the potential to expand to more than 9,000 sqm and 24MW.“The...

June 13, 2024

South Africa

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