August 19, 2026 Nigeria
A university data center in Nigeria was damaged by a thunderstorm on August 15. Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto shut down network services after lightning damaged two inverters at its data center. The inverters have since been repaired, with services expected to resume on August 18. Usmanu...
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May 26, 2026 Nigeria
Kasi Cloud & Data Centers has launched the first phase of its planned 100MW data center campus in Nigeria. Kasi LOS1 is the first building to become operational at the site. The company has not disclosed the IT capacity of the facility. Located in the Maiyegun area of Lekki near Lagos, Kasi...
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April 29, 2026 Nigeria
In recent years, West Africa has been seen to emerge as a promising frontier for digital infrastructural investments. This has spotlighted West Africa to global technology firms, investors, and policymakers alike. At the center of this transformation is Nigeria, where a surge in data center...
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March 26, 2026 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...
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December 19, 2024 Nigeria
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...
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June 21, 2024 Nigeria
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...
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March 13, 2024 Lagos
Airtel Africa this week officially broke ground on a new facility in Lagos’s Victoria Island. The facility will deliver 38MW and is expected to be live by the first quarter of 2026. It will also be the first of five hyperscale data centers developed by Airtel Africa on the continent through...
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February 12, 2024 Nigeria
Tower company IHS Towers has announced that Airtel Nigeria has signed a deal to renew its contract in the country and has committed to take 3,950 tenancies over the next five years, with the majority expected over 2024/2025. Following the terms of the renewed agreement, Airtel is to extend the...
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September 18, 2023 Nigeria
The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies suggests the Nigeria Customs Service create a trade modeling data center. They have also advocated for establishing a pension institute for retired officials. NIPSS Director General Prof. Ayo Omotayo made this assertion during a courtesy...
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July 11, 2023 Huawei Cloud
Housing Bank recently announced the launch of what it's calling the first-ever Prefabricated Modular Data Center in the banking sector in Jordan. According to the company, the data center is designed to enhance the bank's daily operations, boosting flexibility, efficiency, speed, and security. It...
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May 04, 2023 Nigeria
Per a report by TechCabal, the power backup system at Zenith Bank in Nigeria was damaged by fire, which resulted in a blackout at the data center. The outage began at seven in the morning, affecting customers, and majority of the bank's services were down. According to TechCabal, the bank did not...
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April 24, 2023 Huawei Cloud
Huawei is expanding its offerings to include data center products in Vietnam, where storage laws are driving demand for cloud computing services from Amazon Web Services and local unicorn VNG. Do Van Chung, Huawei Data Center Product Manager, told Nikkei Asia on the sidelines of a recent industry...
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April 18, 2023 Nigeria
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has commissioned a new hybrid data center at the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara. The new facility is expected to provide students with access to the latest technology and help improve their learning experience. According to the President of...
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April 10, 2023 Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the...
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April 03, 2023 Huawei Cloud
At the recent Top 10 Trends of Data Center Facilities conference, Huawei revealed its insights into emerging trends in the data center industry. With the theme of "Smart DC, Building the Green Future," the conference highlighted that to accommodate the exponential growth of data demand, which...
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April 03, 2023 Huawei Cloud
With Colombia set to be the next destination, Chinese technology giant Huawei says it is dedicated to establishing additional cloud regions (core data center hubs) and availability zones (AZs, minor data center hubs) throughout Latin America. Fernando Liu, president of the Latin American cloud...
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March 02, 2023 Huawei Cloud
Huawei's 5th Industry Digital Transformation Summit was successfully organized during the 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2023). Huawei recently unveiled a new line of cutting-edge solutions for streamlined networks based on the demands and pain points of enterprise network control effectiveness,...
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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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August 10, 2022 Huawei Cloud
Huawei is reportedly set to finalize its data center location in Saudi Arabia, the giant’s second in the Middle East, following the establishment of a first in Abu Dhabi. In a statement, Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud M.E, said: “We are in the final stages of the Saudi decision — the...
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July 29, 2022 Huawei Cloud
The Malawian government has announced the launch of a national data center in Blantyre. The country partnered with Huawei for the development of the facility. Huawei was responsible for building the data center. The data center will also host all Malawian government systems. Specifications of the...
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