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ADC Plans to Expand Its Johannesburg Footprint to 100MW

SETS $500 MILLION FOR EXPANSION IN AFRICA Africa Data Centres (ADC), carrier-neutral data center company, has announced plans to expand its IT load capacity in Johannesburg, South Africa to 100MW, carrying out expansions across three campuses in the region. Currently,…

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Digital Realty Expands Its Portfolio to Nigeria

ACQUIRING TWO DATA CENTERS Global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center Digital Realty, has just established a joint venture with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire Medallion Data Centres, a provider of colocation and interconnection services in Nigeria. Led…

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Vantage Expands to Africa with $1B Campus

STARTS CONSTRUCTION OF 80MW JOHANNESBURG CAMPUS Hyperscale campus provider Vantage Data Centers, has just announced the commencement of construction for its first African data center campus which is located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through a US$1 billion investment from its…

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Raxio Selects Master Power to Build Its Next Data Centers

TO EXPAND ITS AFRICAN FOOTPRINT Pan-African data center developer and operator Raxio Group, has just announced that it has appointed Master Power Technologies a specialist in the supply and installation of pre-engineered data centers to build and install multiple data…

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Teraco Builds 38MW Data Center in South Africa

AFRICA’S LARGEST TO DATE Teraco Data Environments Ltd., has just commenced the construction of a new hyperscale data center JB4 in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. JBA is Teraco’s seventh data center and designed to offer up to 38MW…

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PAIX Expands to East Africa with Kenya Data Center

PAIX NAIROBI-1 OPENS IN NOVEMBER Cloud and carrier-neutral data center services provider PAIX, has announced the development of a new data center in Nairobi, Kenya. “This highly connected location for PAIX Nairobi-1 is an ideal entry point into the Kenyan…

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MainOne Breaks Ground On New Ghana Data Center

ANOTHER MDXi TIER III FACILITY West Africa’s connectivity and data center services provider MainOne, has officially commenced the construction of its MDXi facility, sited in Appolonia City, Ghana. MDXi, the data center subsidiary of MainOne, will build and operate the…

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Raxio Unveils 9 Fiber Carriers for Uganda Facility

FOR A CARRIER-NEUTRAL 1.5MW FACILITY Uganda based data center company Raxio, has just unveiled the signing-on of nine local fiber carriers for its Namanve carrier-neutral facility. The establishment of these carriers’ partnerships are placed ahead of the company’s data center…

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AWS Opens its New Cloud Region in South Africa

ITS 23RD DATA CENTER REGION Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just opened it new cloud region in Cape Town, South Africa which is the company’s 23rd region across the globe. As usual, the new cloud region comprises of three geographically…

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Interxion to Acquire Kenyan Icolo In 70% Stake Deal

INTERXION AND PRIF TO INVEST MORE IN AFRICA Based in the Netherlands; European data center giant Interxion, has just entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Icolo, a Kenyan data center operator. Interxion announced that it has…

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