June 24, 2022 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 not...
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June 16, 2022 Kenya
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. According...
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June 15, 2022 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...
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June 10, 2022 Africa
In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it will...
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May 26, 2022 Senegal
A new ground station is set to be built at a Free-operated data center in Senegal, satellite firm Avanti has announced. This announcement comes following the signing of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies, through which the telco will build and host a new satellite gateway...
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May 09, 2022 South Africa
Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the opening of its first data center in South Africa. The company’s first data center is located in Durban, and it offers up to 23,700 square feet (2,200 square meters) of white space. It also offers 5MW of capacity. In addition, the Durban data...
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April 29, 2022 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has announced the opening of its new data center in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The 400kW, 120 rack data center is built to Tier 3 standard, and it is the first of its kind in Matabeleland, south of the country. The facility also offers redundant...
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April 21, 2022 Nigeria
Kasi Cloud has announced that it has broken ground on a new hyperscale data center in Lagos, Nigeria. A ceremony to celebrate this milestone was recently held in Lekki, Lagos, attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Sovereign...
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March 28, 2022 Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s state-owned telecommunication company TelOne has opened a new data center in Mazowe, Zimbabwe. This is the company’s fourth data center. The managing director at TelOne, Chipo Mutasa revealed that the company has spent over US$4 million in the development of 14,000 square feet (1,300...
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March 22, 2022 South Africa
Digital Parks Africa is expanding its Samrand data center campus in Centurion, South Africa. The company is expanding the facility to reach 22MVA. The company announced that it would be investing up to R500 million (US$33.7 million) in expanding the facility. DPA is making the investment to meet...
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February 15, 2022 Nigeria
Acronis has announced that it has launched its first cloud data center in Lagos, Nigeria. This move is part of a larger expansion plan that will see the company grow with the deployment of 111 new centers. It is also part of its Acronis Global/Local Initiative. This initiative reportedly includes...
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January 12, 2022 Africa
Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 months...
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December 10, 2021 Airtel Africa Seychelles
Ericsson has announced that it is to develop a data center for Airtel Africa; however, specific details on capacity and dimensions have not been revealed. This facility will be located in the Seychelles. Dina Amadou, CEO of Airtel Seychelles, said that the partnership will help the company to...
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December 09, 2021 Africa
A new data center firm called Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has revealed plans for its first two data centers in Nigeria and South Africa. Earlier in November, Wholesale fiber network company WIOCC revealed that it raised $200 million to launch a new data center based in Africa called OADC....
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November 30, 2021 ADC Lagos LOS1
Africa Data Centres has announced the opening of a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The data center, namely LOS1 will have a capacity of 10MW, with six data halls, and spanning 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft). According to the company, the facility will serve as the West African Hub for the company,...
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November 24, 2021 Africa
Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...
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October 27, 2021 Angola
Africell has announced the opening of its new data center in Luanda, Angola. This is after it signed a new partnership with Angola Cables. According to Africell, the new facility will be in the Kings Tower building in the center of Luanda. CEO of Africell, Cristopher Lundh, said the company is...
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October 08, 2021 Teraco Cape Town CT2
South African data center company Teraco has announced it completed the first phase of its CT2 facility in Cape Town, South Africa. CT2 is a new hyperscale data center in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Phase one has 25,000 square meters (269,000 square feet) of building structure, 18MW of capacity, and...
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October 06, 2021 Nigeria
Cloud Exchange has announced that it has teamed up with telecommunications giant, Huawei, to launch Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data center. The facility is located in Lagos, and Nigeria’s growing digital economy has driven its development. Commenting on the...
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September 01, 2021 Africa
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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