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WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

February 06, 2023

Africa

OADC Launches Data Centers in Johannesburg and Lagos

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has launched facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria. OADC also noted that it would be launching two more facilities in Cape Town, South Africa while expanding its existing facility in Durban. OADC revealed that it opened a data center in...

December 08, 2022

Africa

Helios Announces Acquisition of Major Stakes in Maroc DC and IXAfrica

Helios Investment Partners has acquired two data center firms. The Africa-focused investment company also acquired majority stakes in Kenya’s IXAfrica and Morocco’s Maroc Datacenter (MDC). The company said in a statement that IXAfrica and MDC are in the correct position to play significant ...

November 22, 2022

Africa

Helios Investment Partners Pumps $50 million into Kenya's IXAfrica

Helios Investment Partners has announced a $50m investment into Kenyan data center company IXAfrica. The investment in the data center company is expected to close before the turn of the new year. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, which also include Kenyan regulatory ...

November 11, 2022

Kenya

Teraco completes new data center in Johannesburg, South Africa

Teraco, recently acquired by Digital Realty, has announced the completion of the first phase of its JB4 hyperscale data center addition to the Bredell Campus in the Ekurhuleni area in east Johannesburg, South Africa.Comprising 30,000 sqm of building structure, 8,000 sqm of data hall space acr...

November 03, 2022

Teraco JB4

NTT Launches New Data Center in Johannesburg, South Africa

NTT has opened a new data center in South Africa. The facility is located at 21 Sterling Road in Samrand, Johannesburg. The Johannesburg 1 facility will offer 12MW of power across 64,600 square feet (6,000 square meters) upon full build-out. The data center’s first phase currently offers 32...

October 26, 2022

NTT Johannesburg 1

Oman Data Park announces plans for data center on Zanzibar island

Oman Data Park has announced plans to build a new facility on Zanzibar island in Tanzania after the Sultanate of Oman and Zanzibar signed a number of MoUs relating to higher education, research and innovation, and digital infrastructure. The latter related, in part, to the signing of an MoU be...

October 18, 2022

Africa

Vodacom South Africa to pilot sourcing energy from independent suppliers

As recently reported by Baxtel, South Africa has been facing significant energy challenges resulting in regular outages, with Eskom implementing Stage 6 power cuts. This has meant that South Africans have been faced with power cuts for at least six hours a day. These power outages have had a h...

October 12, 2022

South Africa

International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it has invested $30m in Western Indian Cable Company Holding Ltd. IFC is affiliated with the World Bank. The organization says the fund will help support WIOCC's continued rollout of new subsea cables, terrestrial fiber-optic networks,...

October 04, 2022

Africa

Open Access Data Centres To Open Three New Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced its plan to launch three new Edge facilities in South Africa. The CEO of OADC, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, revealed in a statement that the company is further expanding its Edge data centers to more business hubs in the country to meet the demands of ISPs,...

October 03, 2022

South Africa

icolo.io Opens Second Data Center in Mombasa

Kenyan data center firm icolo.io has announced the completion and opening of its new facility in Mombasa, Kenya. The company posted on LinkedIn that the iColo MBA-2Nyali facility is open for business. The data center has 1.7MW of power and has 13,000 square feet (1,200 square meters) of floor ...

October 03, 2022

Kenya

South Africa faces unprecedented power cuts

South Africa is reportedly facing unprecedented levels of nationwide power blackouts. These blackouts come as a result of state-owned power utility Eskom, which produces 95% of the country’s electricity, implementing Stage 6 load shedding, which means that homes and businesses go without elect...

September 26, 2022

South Africa

Safaricom to expand footprint in Ethiopia

Safaricom is to build a new data center outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, it has been announced. This comes following the signing of a developed land sublease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality ‘telco-cloud data center’. The facility wil...

September 26, 2022

Ethiopia

Cape Verde data center to be completed by the end of the year

Cape Verde’s new data center is set to be completed by the end of 2022; it has been announced. According to reports, the first phase of construction of the Cabo Verde Technology Park’s main building is 85 percent complete and ready for operation by 2022’s end. The project, supported by African...

September 14, 2022

Africa

Galaxy Backbone announces launch Tier IV data center

The Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has announced that it is launching a Tier IV data center into the public and private sector space, in order to boost its digital infrastructure. In a statement, the agency said: “The infrastructure has been specifically built to respond to the desire of its growing b...

September 05, 2022

Nigeria

Africa Data Centres To Add 30MW Capacity To Its Johannesburg Data Center

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that it has started expansion work on its Samrand data center. The expansion will see ADC add 30MW of power to one of its Johannesburg data center campuses. Africa Data Centres (ADC) is pan-African technology group business of Cassava Technologies. It ow...

September 05, 2022

Teraco Johannesburg JB1

Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Africa

VP of Ghana Opens Tier IV Onix Data Center in Accra

The Vice President of Ghana, Mahamudu Bawumia, has opened a 12MW data center in Accra, Ghana. The data center was developed to Tier IV standards. The data center was constructed by Onix. Onix is also claiming that the facility is the only African-based carrier-neutral co-location data center n...

June 24, 2022

Accra

Cloudoon To Develop Kenya's Largest Data Center

Cloudoon has plans to develop a large data center in Kenya. According to People Daily, the cloud hosting company secured up to 6 billion Kenyan Shillings ($51.1m) to develop the facility. The data center will be built on a 10-acre campus near a Forks Hydro-power station in the country. Acco...

June 16, 2022

Kenya

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Announces Nine More Edge Facilities in South Africa

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is looking to launch nine Edge data centers across South Africa. The company announced that it would deploy Edge facilities in East London, Paarl, New Germany, Pietermaritzburg, Beaufort West, Mount Edgecombe, Kimberley, George, and Brits in a few months. Upon c...

June 15, 2022

South Africa

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