Expansion plans are in action and the company is seeing prospects from Morocco to Cape Town, says Dr Angus Hay, ADC regional executive.
Africa Data Centres , owned by Cassava Technologies , is on a $500 million expansion drive, which will see the company establish a presence from North to Southern Africa.
International companies, such as Equinix and Digital Realty, are rapidly building data centres on the continent. Hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google are also making massive investments in data centres in Africa. “At the moment, we have a capital plan in progress; you can see from the expansion we are doing, the construction in Cape Town and the building in Samrand. That is all being funded from a large capital pool of $500 million , and that is a combination of debt and equity within the larger Cassava Technologies Group.”
“We have expansion plans; we recently acquired land in Cape Town much closer to our landing cable. That is a facility we will start building soon. It will rival the Samrand as being a true hyperscaler 20MW facility.
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