Africa Data Centres Starts Construction of Second DC in Cape Town

Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, recently announced a second data centre in Cape Town. The new facility, located in the city’s north, will have a 20 MW IT load. Construction is already underway, and the facility will be operational by the mid of 2024.

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The construction of the new Data Centre is a part of the company’s wider-scale African expansion plans, which will see Africa Data Centres building several new DCs across the continent.

Investments in African Market

Africa Data Centres is further increasing its investments in the African market and focusing on Cape Town as a location for deployments to provide customers with world-class facilities. This enables customers to put down multiple sites for redundancy or gives them an additional option in the market.

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According to Tesh Durvasula, CEO of Africa Data Centres, the company is building this second facility to meet demand in the region and beyond. Cape Town is a thriving city and the second largest economy in South Africa. It is regarded as the country’s IT and software hub, and we are seeing significant growth in the data centre market in the region. It is a preferred site for both global and local providers of cloud software and IT services. We built and operate the first hyperscale colocation data centre in the city, which already houses a number of global providers alongside major South African enterprises and government, and this second facility will add capacity to the region, and redundancy too.”

Hardy Pemhiwa, Group President & CEO of Cassava Technologies, said: “This second data centre facility in Cape Town increases the number of our data centres in South Africa to four and is part of our investment program to deliver an additional ten data centres in Africa. I would like to acknowledge the Western Cape Provincial Government and the Western Cape Department of Economic Development who have been extremely supportive as we expand our data centre facilities in Cape Town.”