Hyperscale Data Centres Africa
Africa Data Centres Reveals Continent’s Largest-Ever Data Centre Expansion Plan
Sourced from Shutterstock Africa’s leading carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, Africa Data Centres, has announced plans to build large hyperscale data centres throughout Africa, including the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. The project will involve building 10 hyperscale data centres, in 10 countries, over the next two years – at a cost of more than $500 million. It is being funded through new equity and facilities from leading development finance institutions and multilateral organisations. Africa Data Centres CEO, Mr Stephane Duproz, explains that the finance for the roll-out has been provided by equity and loans to Africa Data Centres’ parent company, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, to fully fund the expansion. Explaining the ambitious initiati...
New Multi-Billion Rand Data Centre Facility Built in South Africa
Image of Teraco’s CT2 Data Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. Teraco Data Environments, one of Africa’s largest vendor-neutral data centre and interconnection services providers, has announced the completion of Phase 1 of CT2, its new hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town, which is now the largest data centre in the Western Cape province of South Africa. According to a statement from Teraco, the new facility is set to support the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity in the country and further. CT2 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco’s long-term vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa, the company says. An exterior shot of Teraco’s CT2 data centre. Teraco’s CT2 Data Centre The fir...
