Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

Africa Data Centres adds Cape Town capacity

August 6, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Africa Data Centres doubled the capacity of its CPT1 data centre in Cape Town with an additional 6MW...

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Microsoft, G42 pledge data centre, AI investment in Kenya, new Azure region

July 18, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft, G42 (in which Microsoft recently invested $1.5b) and Kenya’s Ministry of Information, C...

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Digital Parks Africa expanding in Johannesburg

July 3, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Digital Parks Africa is expanding its Samrand data centre in Johannesburg. ...

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AWS partners with Orange for launch of first Wavelength nodes in Africa

June 27, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

AWS will open new Wavelength Zones in Morocco (North Africa) and Senegal (West Africa) later this ye...

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Cameroon-based ST DIGITAL building more data centres to serve French-speaking Africa

June 23, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

We came across Cameroon-based ST DIGITAL, which operates a data centre in the country and is plannin...

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PAIX Data Centres forms JV for new Djibouti data centre; subsea cable angle

June 13, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Kenya-based PAIX Data Centres formed a JV with the Djibouti Sovereign Fund to build a new data centr...

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OVHcloud opens first Africa Local Zone in Morocco

June 10, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

OVHcloud opened Local Zone edge nodes in Dallas, Zurich and Marrakech, Morocco. ...

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G42, EcoCloud partner on geothermal powered campus in Kenya

March 28, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Kenya’s EcoCloud and G42, partner in the UAE’s Khazna Data Centers, signed an MoU for the develo...

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Teraco approved to connect planned solar farm to South Africa’s grid

February 28, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Teraco, majority owned by Digital Realty, has been granted a grid capacity allocation from the count...

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Microsoft confirms South Africa self-build, but details elusive

February 13, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft confirmed it will self-build in South Africa but gave no details other than the project wa...

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Oracle Cloud plans Kenya region

February 8, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Oracle announced plans for a cloud region in Nairobi, Kenya. ...

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Google chooses Johannesburg for first South Africa region

February 5, 2024
Sacha Kavanagh

Google Cloud opened its first region in South Africa, in Johannesburg. ...

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