ALSO BREAKS GROUND ON FRANKFURT DATA CENTER Hyperscale campus provider, Vantage Data Centers, has just announced the opening of the first facility on its Johannesburg campus, South Africa. Codenamed JNB11, the new Vantage data center campus was first announced last…
SIGNS 20-YEAR POWER DEAL WITH SOLARAFRICA Hyperscale campus provider, Vantage Data Centers, has announced its entry into a new power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica, to power its Johannesburg (JNB1) data center campus in South Africa. The 20-year PPA is…
ADDS GHANA TO ITS NIGERIA AND TOGO FOOTPRINT Africa Data Centres (ADC), part of the Cassava Technologies Group, has announced that it is building a 30MW data center facility in Accra, Ghana. As a pan-African data center service provider, ADC…
EXPANDING THE MONET CABLE SYSTEM US-based data center colocation, cloud and connectivity provider, Flexential, has announced a new partnership with Angola Cables to expand its colocation and interconnection footprint to the Southern and West African markets. Angola Cables is an…
THE COMPANY’S FLAGSHIP DATA CENTER New hyperscale interconnection and data center company, Kasi Cloud Ltd., has announced the groundbreaking of its planned data center campus in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria. Special guests at the event include Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of…
FOLLOWING ITS ACQUISITION BY EQUINIX MainOne, an Equinix company, has just opened its new data center in Lekki, Nigeria which marks the second facility within the company’s Lekki campus. Codenamed Lekki II, the new Tier III data center is now…
MAKES ITS FIRST FOOTPRINT IN AFRICA Digital infrastructure company, Equinix, Inc., has just announced the completion of its deal to acquire West African data center and connectivity solutions provider MainOne, following its agreement as announced last year. Acquired at US$320…
THE NEW JOHANNESBURG CLOUD REGION Oracle has announced the availability of its cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa which marks its first cloud region in Africa and Oracle’s 37th cloud region globally. The new Oracle cloud region in Johannesburg is…
ANOTHER AFRICAN DATA CENTER ACQUISITION Digital Realty has just entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Teraco, an African carrier-neutral colocation and data center service provider. Teraco’s portfolio in Africa includes seven data center facilities which…
EXPANDING ITS PORTFOLIO INTO AFRICA Equinix, Inc. has just announced its expansion into Africa as it plans to acquire MainOne, a Nigerian data center and connectivity solutions provider with footprints across West Africa. Valued at US$320 Million, the transaction marks…
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