Teraco Data Environments has completed Phase 1 of CT2, a hyperscale data centre in Brackenfell, Cape Town and the largest data centre in the Western Cape. The new facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud providers for data centre capacity. The first phase of CT2 comprises 25,000 sqm/270,000 sqft of building structure, 8,000 sqm/86,000 sqft of data ha...

Liquid Telecom’s founder and billionaire Dr Strive Masiyiwa has announced the company has secured US$500 million in equity and loans to build several data centres across the African continent. In total, the London-based tech entrepreneur is planning ten hyperscale facilities across Africa’s largest cities through the telco’s data centre business arm Africa Data Centre...

Pan-African operator Africa Data Centres has completed its Johannesburg data centre, based in its Midrand Campus, one of the largest in Africa. This facility has been designed to target technology companies and enterprises in and out of South Africa and comprises eight data halls with 97,000 sq ft of white space and 14.5MW of IT load. Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data ...