Cassava Technology’s pan-African data centre group Africa Data Centres (ADC) has today announced a drawing of the first portion of its $300-million strategic investment made by the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). The company says that this first…
South Africa-based colocation data centres and interconnection platforms provider for Africa, Teraco Data Environments announced yesterday that it has been acquired by California cloud computing and data centre firm Digital Realty. Digital Realty is one of the largest providers of…
Paratus, a telecommunications company, will open a new data centre, Armada, this coming month (August 2022) in Windhoek, Namibia. For the first time, colocation clients will have the freedom of choice as well as access to infrastructure hosting services. Any…
International hyperscale data centre firm Vantage has opened its first data center facility in Africa with its new Johannesburg campus after breaking ground in 2021. The two-story facility offers 16MW of critical IT capacity across 130,000 square feet (12,000 square…
Paratus has announced that it is officially ready to open the new Paratus Namibia Armada DC (Data Center) in Windhoek in August 2022. The company says that this will be Namibia’s first carrier-neutral data centre. It opens its doors to…
Africa Data Centres, a pan-African technology firm which forms part of the Cassava Technologies Group, has announced the building of a second data centre in Cape Town, South Africa. The new 20MW facility will cover 15,000 square meters in eight…
Equinix, Inc., a worldwide digital infrastructure company, today announced its expansion into Africa through its intended acquisition of MainOne, a leading West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider, with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. The acquisition is…
Africa Data Centres, the only truly pan-African operator of large-scale, vendor- and carrier-neutral data centres, has won three awards at the prestigious Africa Digital Economy Awards (ADEA). Africa Data Centres not only walked away with the Innovative Data Centre Provider…
Paratus Zambia’s brand-new data center (DC) opened in Lusaka, Zambia last month and opened the doors to new opportunities, particularly for its new technology tenants. The latest customer to sign up is the IT solutions expert, Corporate IT Solutions Zambia,…
Access to affordable, reliable and environmentally sustainable sources of electricity is a pressing issue for the growing number of Data Centre operators across Africa. These facilities need to ensure high availability of power to mitigate downtime, but many African countries…