Posts Tagged ‘Nigeria’

Airtel Nigeria opens colocation facility in Lagos

April 21, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports indicate Airtel Nigeria opened a new data centre in the Lekki area of Lagos. ...

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Equinix enters Africa with closure of MainOne acquisition

April 6, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Equinix closed its announced acquisition of Nigeria-based MainOne to enter Africa. ...

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Acronis adds Africa locations to global data centre footprint

January 28, 2022
Philbert Shih

Acronis set up two new data centres in Africa for its cybersecurity tools and backup for Microsoft a...

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Digital Realty taking majority ownership of South Africa’s Teraco

January 4, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Digital Realty entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority ~55% stake in Teraco Data E...

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Equinix acquires MainOne in Nigeria; enters Africa market

December 15, 2021
Sacha Kavanagh

We had a virtual sit down with Equinix management following the announcement of an agreement to buy ...

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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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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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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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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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21CTL begins new hyperscale, edge data centres in Nigeria

October 23, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Nigerian telco 21st Century Technologies Limited (21CTL) broke ground on a new 36MW data centre in t...

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Rack Centre increasing data centre capacity in Nigeria; first step in pan-African data centre network

October 21, 2020
Sacha Kavanagh

Rack Centre will increase the capacity of its data centre in Lagos, Nigeria. ...

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