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Ethiopia
Raxio Data Centres secures sustainability-linked debt facility of up to $170m
Raxio, Roha and Meridiam have secured a sustainability-linked debt facility of up to US$170 million in multiple tranches for Raxio Data Centres, a pan-African data centre developer and operator. The financing package includes US$110 million from Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fu...
April 18
Safaricom deploying $100m data centre in Ethiopia
Kenyan mobile network Safaricom Plc (NR: SCOM) is setting up a data centre facility in Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Abeba. The facility is being deployed at a capital expenditure of US$100 million, according to news house Addis Fortune. The centre, which will operate under Safaricom’s local subsidiary Safaricom Ethiopia Plc, has been assembled in China and shipped ove...
January 27
Raxio Group signs key partner for pan-Africa data centre expansion
Private equity-funded operator Raxio Group has selected Master Power Technologies to support the company’s data centre expansion projects across several African countries. Raxio, owned by the Roha Group, has currently plans to build up to 12 centres in Africa by 2024. The company last expansion was announced in July in partnership with investment firm Africa Century Re...
August 25
Ethiopia’s first hyperscale data centre breaks ground
East African data centre operator wingu.africa has broken ground on what it claims to be the first carrier-neutral hyperscale data centre park in Ethiopia. Located in the Ethio ICT Park of the capital Addis Ababa, the site will boast 15,000 square meters of building space. Aimed at content delivery networks, cloud providers, and financial services companies, the data cen...
January 16
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