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 probably renting space in an Orange facility that already exists. In 2018/2019, Main One (now owned by Equinix) collaborated with Sonatel and Orange to construct additional landing stations in Dakar and Abidjan in the Côte d'Ivoire for the latter's Portugal-to-South-Africa Main One Cable. The 2Africa subsea cable will be landed at Sonatel's cable landing station in July 2022, according to a contract won by the Senegalese telecom and Orange subsidiary.
Onix now runs a data center in Accra, Ghana; the first construction phase consists of two modules with a combined area of 21,000 square feet. The facility, which opened last year, has two more modules and a total area of 75,350 square feet. The Accra facility is an addition to a facility that already existed and that AIIM purchased in 2021. The facility is the biggest data center in the nation, with a capacity of 170 racks that can be expanded to 680 racks. It is Ghana's only Tier IV data center that has received Uptime Institute certification. Initially, a joint venture by Etix Everywhere and the investment trusts Ngoya and Africa Investment Group (AIG), the facility is partly powered by solar energy. It was initially introduced in 2017 under the name Ngoya Etix DC.
