31 October 2024

Equinix, Inc has opened its first International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in South Africa.

The new Equinix facility - JN1 - is located in Germiston, Johannesburg, and is already welcoming new customers and partners. JN1 is a key facility within the Equinix global network, designed to support and enhance growing digital infrastructure and connectivity in the region including access for businesses of all sizes to cloud and connectivity services from this new Johannesburg base.

The new facility provides over 20,000 square feet of colocation space in its initial phase, with plans for expansion to more than 100,000 square feet at full build out. The site boasts significant power capacity making it suitable for high-density deployments with the capability to implement liquid cooling to support those deployments. JN1 has 700 cabinets in its initial phase, with plans for 3,475 cabinets when fully built out.