Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

Digital Realty making moves in Africa with JV and acquisition

October 27, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Digital Realty is ramping up its presence in Africa with an acquisition in Nigeria and a new build i...

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EDNEX launches to serve emerging data centre hubs in EMEA, APAC

October 8, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

EDGNEX launched to develop data centres in emerging and underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe,...

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Oracle Cloud infrastructure development plans in EMEA

September 27, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

We attended a virtual Oracle Cloud EMEA event, which highlighted a significant number of customer st...

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Africa Data Centres plans 10 new hyperscale data centres in two years

September 20, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Africa Data Centres is planning to build 10 hyperscale data centres in 10 countries over the next tw...

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Global Switch exec joins Actis, Convergence Partners for planned African data centres

September 2, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Actis and Convergence Partners named Jasper Lankhorst as CEO of its planned (and as yet unnamed) pan...

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Hyperscalers behind Africa, Asia, US subsea cable developments

August 31, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

There’s been some noteworthy activity from hyperscalers in new international subsea cable systems,...

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Raxio secures investment for Africa data centres; underserved markets

April 15, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

France-based investment management company Meridiam invested $48m in African data centre operator Ra...

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Africa Data Centres to launch new Nigeria data centre this year

April 14, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Liquid Telecom-backed Africa Data Centres, which raised $307m for expansion last November, confirmed...

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Tencent Cloud to build out cloud infrastructure region in Bahrain

April 6, 2021
Philbert Shih

Tencent Cloud revealed plans to open a new data centre in Bahrain. ...

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IXAfrica discusses new data centre in Kenya; emerging hyperscale needs

March 23, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

We caught up with management at newly announced IXAfrica as it breaks ground on its first data centr...

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Vantage exits Etix with sale of Ghana data centre; new pan-African platform founded

March 12, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) and management of Onix Data Centres acquired a maj...

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Teraco mulls expanding beyond South Africa

March 5, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports Teraco Data Environments is considering moving beyond its home market of South A...

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