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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

IIJ of Japan looks into data center set up in Kenya

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) is considering deploying a containerized modular data center in Kenya. This week, the company reported that the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has been exploring methods to "capture the vitality of the African market" and has decided to investigat...

August 30, 2023

Kenya

IXAfrica buys 11 acres for second Nairobi data center facility

IXAfrica has bought land in Nairobi, Kenya, for a second data center site. The company executed a contract with local real estate developer Tilisi Developments plc to acquire 11 acres of land in the Kenyan capital for the development of its second data center campus. Research is currently bein...

August 15, 2023

Nairobi

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

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

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

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