06 August 2024

This expansion will add three new state-of-the-art halls in new areas on the campus with another 6MW of IT load, doubling its current capacity. The expansion was implemented with an up to $300 million loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to Africa Data Centres.

The company is seeing tremendous growth in the data centre market in South Africa generally, as both national and international cloud and IT service providers seek to expand their footprints in the region. It is made up of two more colocation data halls and one hyperscale hall. The expansion adds 1,000 racks of white space or the space available for customers to lease.

The data centre boasts hybrid cooling technology capable of handling both air cooling and liquid cooling and is one of the most efficient and sustainable data centres ever built in South Africa. It is powered by renewable energy and boasts a Water Usage Effectiveness of 0 due to no water consumption for the IT infrastructure.