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Open Access Data Centers to expand Johannesburg facility

Pan-African operator Open Access Data Centers (OADC) plans to expand its data center in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has reportedly begun work on phase two expansion of its Isando facility, which is expected to be complete in Q1 2024, adding 4MW and 600 racks. Darren Bedford, group chief b...

November 22, 2023

Johannesburg

Teraco announces 30MW expansion of Brackenfell facility

Teraco has announced a 30MW expansion of its CT2 campus in Brackenfell as the second construction phase begins. The new capacity of this facility is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2025. The Digital Realty-owned company completed the first phase of CT2 at the Brackenfell cam...

November 14, 2023

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BCX partners with Alibaba to launch cloud products in Johannesburg, South Africa

Telkom subsidiary BCX, in partnership with Alibaba Cloud, officially launched its Africa Local Public (ALP) Cloud service from two Johannesburg-based data centers last week. Both companies entered a partnership that grants BCX exclusive rights to distribute Alibaba Cloud’s products and service...

October 13, 2023

Johannesburg

Teraco begins phase 2 of Johannesburg's JB4 facility

Teraco, a South African data center provider, has started constructing a second building at its Bredell campus in the Ekurhuleni neighborhood of Johannesburg. The JB4 facility provides highly resilient and secure colocation facilities, and at its completion, it will encompass 861,110 square fe...

July 12, 2023

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Teraco announces solar farm investment plans

Teraco has announced plans to invest in a solar farm located in the City of Ekurhuleni in eastern Johannesburg, South Africa. This investment is in 100MW utility-scale solar farms, which are currently under development and located with the data center, which is reportedly close to signing a w...

March 20, 2023

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Teraco Purchases Cape Town's Great Westerford Property

The Great Westerford building in Cape Town, South Africa, has been purchased by Teraco. This week, the company controlled by Digital Realty declared that it had acquired the structure from Ingenuity Property Investments, which contains its 5MW CT1 data center. The office area in the Rondebo...

February 09, 2023

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Teraco Secures $678m Loan For Expansion

Teraco, a provider of data centers in South Africa, has been given a $678 million loan. Absa Group, a South African lender, led the loan. The business stated that "many big financial institutions" provided the cash, but did not identify them. Teraco, a subsidiary of Digital Realty, will utiliz...

February 06, 2023

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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

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

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Teraco completes CT2 data center in Cape Town, South Africa

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, a...

October 08, 2021

Teraco Cape Town CT2

Teraco announces completion of its JB3 data center on Isando campus, Johannesburg

African data center firm Teraco has announced its third data center on its Isando campus in Johannesburg. The facility named JB3 has 480,000 square feet of building structure, with 130,000 square feet of data hall space. It also has a capacity of 29MW. With this added capacity, Teraco’s capaci...

August 28, 2021

Teraco JB3

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eigh...

May 10, 2020

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