February 20, 2023 Africa
Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a Middle Eastern data center company, intends to open additional campuses in Egypt. The company said this week that it had struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with engineering company Elsewedy Data Centers to build the biggest data center complex in Africa in Egypt. In...
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February 20, 2023 Senegal
Onix, a data center company in West Africa, is growing into Senegal and providing colocation space in Dakar. This week, the corporation announced that the new data center is at the city's 2Africa Cable Landing Station (CLS). The Onix facility's specifications weren't disclosed. The corporation is...
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February 08, 2023 South Africa
WIOCC has successfully connected the 2Africa cable to the Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Durban facility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In April 2022, OADC's 4MW, 43,050 sq ft facility in the Amanzimtoti neighborhood of Durban debuted with 21,525 sq ft of white space. The 2Africa cable was...
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February 06, 2023 Africa
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...
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December 08, 2022 Africa
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...
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November 22, 2022 Africa
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 roles...
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November 11, 2022 Kenya
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...
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November 03, 2022 Teraco JB4
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 across...
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October 26, 2022 NTT Johannesburg 1
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 32,000...
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October 18, 2022 Africa
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...
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October 12, 2022 South Africa
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...
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October 04, 2022 Africa
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,...
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October 03, 2022 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, 5G...
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October 03, 2022 Kenya
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...
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September 26, 2022 South Africa
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...
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September 26, 2022 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 will...
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September 14, 2022 Africa
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...
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September 05, 2022 Nigeria
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 base...
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September 05, 2022 Teraco Johannesburg JB1
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 owns...
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August 15, 2022 Africa
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...
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