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Raxio to build Tier III data center in Mozambique

Raxio Group has announced that it will build a data center in Mozambique. The data center will be a 1.5MW capacity data center. It will also be the first privately owned Tier III carrier-neutral data center in the country. The facility will be in the Beluluane Industrial Park, outside Maput...

July 09, 2021

Raxio Mozambique

MainOne opens data center in Appolonia, Accra, Ghana

MainOne, a Nigerian telco firm, just opened its new data center in Appolonia City, outside Accra, Ghana. The Company first announced the construction of the data center in 2019. It is a 100-rack facility, and MDXi, MainOne’s subsidiary, would manage it. Interestingly, the facility is also Tier...

June 23, 2021

Equinix Accra AC1

Togo inaugurates its first data center

The Ministry of the Digital of Economy and Digital Transformation recently announced the inauguration of Togo’s first data center. A Tier III+ facility built by CFAOP Technologies will provide sensitive data hosting as a neutral colocation facility.The facility took two and a half years to bui...

June 04, 2021

Togo

Raxio opens Tier III data center in Uganda

Raxio Data Center just opened a new data center in Kampala, Uganda. The new facility was built to Tier III standards, and it has a colocation space of up to 400 racks. Plans were already in place for a data center in Uganda since 2018 and the data center general manager, James Byaruhanga, ...

May 27, 2021

Raxio Uganda

icolo.io announces new data center in Mombasa, Kenya

Icolo.io, part of Digital Realty, has announced that it is constructing a new data center based in Nyali, Mombasa. The MBA2 facility will span 1,200 sq m of floor space, with a capacity of 1.6MW. It is the company’s second data center in the city, and it’s third in total.Expected to be comple...

May 26, 2021

Digital Realty: Mombasa MBA2

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

May 25, 2021

Africa

NTT announces new data center expansion project in South Africa

Johannesburg – 28 September 2020 – NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider and Dimension Data, the South African systems integrator and managed services provider which represents the NTT business in the Middle East and Africa, today announced that construction works for ...

September 28, 2020

NTT Johannesburg 1

Teraco announces new 30 MW facility in Cape Town

South African data center operator Teraco is building a new data center, Cape Town 2 (CT2). Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local COVID-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021. The completed facility will comprise of eigh...

May 10, 2020

Teraco Cape Town CT2

Sparkle Selects the Djibouti Data Center as its IP Hub in Africa

TI Sparkle, the Telecom service provider based in Italy, has announced that it has moved its African IP hub into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC). Sparkle will use the facility as an IP hub for its expansion to East and South Africa.The Djibouti Data Center is a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 12, 2019

Djibouti Data Center (DDC)

Huawei To Build Cloud Services Data Centre In South Africa

Huawei says it is constructing a data centre in South Africa to offer cloud services in the region, according to news site MyBroadband. Although the exact location of the data centre has not been confirmed, the company says it plans to launch its cloud services portfolio in South Africa by the...

October 17, 2018

South Africa

PAIX and NSIA Technologies make a West African Joint Venture

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies have formed a joint venture to run carrier neutral data centers in two African countries. The pair will develop and operate two data centers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal under the PAIX brand.The joint venture will acquire NSIA Technologie...

May 30, 2018

PAIX Abidjan

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