Raxio Group has announced that it will build a data center in Mozambique. The data center will be a 1.5MW capacity data center. It will also be the first privately owned Tier III carrier-neutral data center in the country. The facility will be in the Beluluane Industrial Park, outside Maputo, the capital city. Also, Raxio will be partnering with Africa Century Real Estate for this project. Aside from that, the facility is scheduled to go live in 2022.
Furthermore, Raxio said it would be powering the data center with renewable energy. It is going to use a combination of a local solar supply and hydro-generated grid power. Robert Mullins, CEO of Raxio Group was quoted to have said “Our data center in Maputo will be a flagship facility focused on energy efficiency and use of renewable power, that will facilitate internet traffic amongst content providers locally and internationally and make the internet experience faster, more resilient, and more affordable for all digital users.”
Raxio plans to build 12 data centers in Africa within three years. It is also developing some data centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia. Raxio also plans to invest in data centers in Ivory Coast and Tanzania later in the year.
Maputo, Mozambique, 8 July 2021: The Raxio Group (“Raxio”), a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, today announced that it is establishing and investing in ‘Raxio Mozambique’, with a first state-of-the-art, carrier neutral, data centre in Mozambique.
Set to be commissioned during 2022, Raxio Mozambique’s first facility will be located approximately 20 KM from downtown Maputo at the Beluluane Industrial Park, ideally situated to meet both primary and disaster recovery needs of a wide range of customers. The park benefits from ideal power and connectivity infrastructure ensuring a stable and highly-connected operating environment for the facility. Raxio expects all power used by the facility to come from renewable sources, with a combination of hydro-generated grid power and a local solar supply.
In line with Raxio’s other facilities across the continent, Raxio Mozambique’s first facility will be fully equipped with industry best in cooling technology, security, caging, AC/DC power compatibility and redundancy in a 99.982% uptime environment. Customers will be able to cross connect with local and international carriers and other customers in specially designed meet-me rooms. By co-locating in Raxio’s facility, customers will benefit from a “shared infrastructure” model, and substantially reduce their operational and capital costs while improving application performance and flexibility.
In addition to providing an ideal environment for the leading industries across Mozambique, Raxio Mozambique will be a critical feature to the country’s digital backbone. Through Raxio’s cross connect service, mobile network operators, ISPs and carriers will be able to interconnect to each other and their customers, reducing the cost of access across the country while stabilizing connectivity at improved speeds, at a time when new submarine cables will also be providing Mozambique with enhanced international connectivity.
Raxio has teamed up with Africa Century Real Estate for this project, an experienced local investor and developer of residential, office and commercial properties in Mozambique. As digital transformation grows across both the private and public sectors and significant investment expected in the coming years, Raxio has plans to build additional facilities in the country to support this growth.
Robert Mullins, CEO of Raxio Group said: “Over the past year, the number of internet users in the country increased by 25% – and we expect this to keep growing over the coming years, across all industries. To support this growth, we are seeing new investment from carriers and subsea cables. We are excited to be able to support the country’s digital growth with affordable, high quality, co-location environments. Our data centre in Maputo will be a flagship facility focused on energy efficiency and use of renewable power, that will facilitate internet traffic amongst content providers locally and internationally and make the internet experience faster, more resilient, and more affordable for all digital users.”
Raxio Mozambique’s facility in Maputo is the fourth data centre in the Raxio Group’s growing portfolio, which includes Raxio Uganda, Raxio Ethiopia, and Raxio Kinshasa, in the DRC. Raxio Group is actively pursuing its development efforts, including the establishment of additional facilities in its existing markets and building facilities in new markets. Raxio’s planned investment in the Ivory Coast later this year will establish a strong foothold in francophone West Africa, and serve as a hub for the region, while its expected investment in Tanzania will consolidate its position in East Africa. The Group expects to complete up to 10-12 data centres investments across Africa to meet the increased demand for high quality local storage and data hosting in the region.
