The demand for data centers continues to grow on the African continent, which is also experiencing high demand for high-speed connectivity and cloud services. Local and foreign companies are stepping up investments to meet this demand. Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia last week inaugurated a Tier 4 data center in Amrahia, Adentan Municipality, Greater Accra Region. With...
Côte d’Ivoire’s previous national development plan, 2016-2020, contributed to an average economic growth of 5.9%. The state wants to do better with the new. It is determined to tap more into the potential of digital by consolidating services and infrastructure. The Minister of Communication and the Digital Economy, Amadou Coulibaly, announces the construction of a data center...
Actis majority-owned datacentre Rack Centre, an established carrier-neutral Tier III datacentre in West Africa, said it has become the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE-certified datacentre in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). EDGE, an innovation of IFC, member of the World Bank group, is a preeminent international green certification system that focuses on empowering...
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, has announced that it is building a second datacentre in Cape Town, South Africa. According to a statement released by the company, the new 20MW facility will cover 15,000 square meters in eight data halls and is situated on the northern periphery of Cape Town city...
Vantage Data Centers, the US company building a sprawling data centre campus in Midrand, Johannesburg, has signed a 20-year energy supply deal with SolarAfrica. The agreement will allow Vantage to supplement the local grid that will power its under-construction campus, which is expected to open in July, with renewable energy. The power will be supplied from...
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, said it has commenced with the construction of a 30MW datacentre facility in Accra, Ghana. According to a statement released to the media, the new facility will lay the groundwork for the company’s hyper-scale partners to expand digital services and solutions to more countries in West...
The landing of the 2Africa PEARLS cable and the Google cable Equiano cable in Africa is likely to attract major cloud vendors to the continent, which will be a boost for enterprises. Dan Kwach, MD of Africa Data Centres, East Africa, the continent stands to benefit from the landings and the new technology they offer....
Paratus Namibia is backing its Armada Data Centre facility, scheduled to be launched in August 2022, with N$123-million and believes its newest datacentre “is the largest and most advanced datacentre in Namibia and one of the largest in Africa.” The company says that the timing of the datacentre’s official launch is apt, given the country-and...
Ethio telecom announced that it built and launched modern modular data center recently and has been utilizing it for own multiple purposes and leasing for enterprises. The company has signed a memorandum of agreement today with Zemen Bank, Rays Micro Finance, ZamZam Bank, Hijira Bank and Websprix that would enable these institutions use this modern...
Nigerian company Kasi Cloud Ltd has announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony in Lekki, Lagos on 19 April 2022, to signal the beginning of construction on the company’s first of several planned data centre campuses in Nigeria. Kasi is a first-of-its-kind mass-scale data centre and digital ecosystem platform company, bringing design and critical digital...
