Safaricom is deploying a new prefabricated data center in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, as the telco begins to launch operations in the country. Anwar Soussa, managing director of Safaricom Ethiopia, said late last month the company’s first data center has arrived in Addis and the company is working on its network rollout. “At such...
Oracle this week opened its Johannesburg-based datacentre, its first cloud region in Africa, and according to its regional MD, this is part of an aggressive expansion strategy and one of the fastest of any major cloud provider. The company made headlines yesterday after announcing its Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region, and said it would boost cloud adoption across...
Enhancing Djibouti’s Position as “Africa’s Marseille” wingu.africa group limited (“Wingu”), East Africa’s rapidly expanding carrier-neutral data center group and TO7 Network SAS (“TO7”), the Republic of Djibouti’s (“Djibouti”) leading private telecommunications company, have formed a partnership to establish a second carrier-neutral data center and the country’s first carrier-neutral cable landing station (“CLS”). The facility is...
French telecommunications firm Orange has partnered with utility company Engie to convert its main datacentre in Africa, GOS or Groupement Orange Services, to solar power. The immediate implication is that the telco will reduce its carbon footprint in the Ivory Coast. This follows an Energy-as-a-Service deal signed between Orange and Engie in December 2021, to...
Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral data centre and interconnection solutions provider, announced last week that Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Teraco from a consortium of investors, including Berkshire Partners and Permira. Based...
Ericsson is developing a new data center in the Seychelles for Airtel Africa. The telco has awarded Ericsson a turnkey project to relocate and modernize its existing network and core services to a new data center in the Seychelles. Specifications and timelines have not been shared, but the companies said the new data center will...
Carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider According to the company the new facility will enable hyperscale customers to deploy digitisation solutions to West Africa. CEO of Africa Data Centres, Stephane Duproz, describes Nigeria as one of the company’s key markets as there is a rapidly-growing demand for datacentres in the region, which is hungry for digitisation,...
New pan-African datacentre company Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced a US$500-mllion-plus, multi-year investment programme to construct and operate a network of more than 20 world-class, carrier-neutral, GreenStar and Uptime Institute Tier III accredited datacentres across Africa, optimised to serve the needs of the cloud provider and wholesale community. This follows recent news that...
Carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider Africa Data Centres has secured an investment of almost R4 billion to expand its two Johannesburg-based data centres from 30MW to 100MW of IT load. The company owns and operates Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities. It is securing land to build a third data...
Africa Data Centres, a carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, has announced a strong expansion in Nairobi. The company has begun the development of a second data centre of up to 20MW of IT load and is securing land for a third facility. This $200-million plus investment will double the country’s data centre capacity and serve...
