Data Centres in Africa
Teraco Completes Massive Data Centre Facility in South Africa
Teraco’s newly completed Johannesburg Data Centre facility. Teraco Data Environments Proprietary Limited, one of Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services providers, has announced the completion of the JB3 data centre facility, located within the Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The JB3 Data Centre. Image sourced from Tech Central. The company says its new billion-dollar facility represents a strategic addition to Platform Teraco, which offers enterprises a scalable platform for IT infrastructure deployment while sustaining performance, reliability, security, and the widest network choice. JB3 comprises 45000 square meters of building structure, 12000 square meters of data hall space, and 29MW of critical power load. When...
Why A Future-Proof Data Centre Environment is Key to Digital Transformation
Image sourced from Capacity Media. According to a recent report, Africa needs 700 data centre facilities to meet the growing demand for capacity and density in today’s digitally-driven operating environment. This is easier said than done given the power, land, and water requirements of modern data centres. And yet, this has become a non-negotiable at a time when cloud adoption has accelerated and become a top business priority. “These mission-critical facilities require resilient infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted services that enable business, operations, and systems to function effectively and continuously – especially given the ongoing lockdown conditions still experienced in many African countries, but for a post-pandemic future too,” says Peter Hodgkinson, Managing Director, WSP, ...
Why the Data Centre Industry Needs to Embrace Renewable Energy
Sourced from Shutterstock While investment in digital infrastructure is certainly a win for economic growth in South Africa and Africa as a whole, as is the investment in new data centres, this vital infrastructure needs substantial amounts of energy to function. In fact, it is estimated that data centres could consume a fifth of global electricity by 2025 and create 14% of carbon emissions by 2040. Data centres play a crucial role in today’s ever-accelerating Information Age – as the backbone of the digital economy and the very foundation of the world wide web, they are key to creating a platform for growth and encouraging investment in Africa. There have been several factors driving the demand for data centre infrastructure in South Africa and across the continent, includi...
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