Construction of 2nd Facility in Cape Town Announced by Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres booth

Africa Data Centres, a division of the pan-African technology company Cassava Technologies, is happy to announce the construction of a second data center in Cape Town. The new facility, which will be located in the city’s north, will have a 20MW IT load. The new data center will be operational by the middle of 2024 as construction is already underway.

The building of Africa Data Centres’ second data center in Cape Town is a part of the organization’s ongoing and significant infrastructure investment in the Western Cape province and demonstrates its faith in both the province’s economy and South Africa, the continent’s biggest market for IT infrastructure and services.

“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 center market in the region,” said Tesh Durvasula, CEO at Africa Data Centres. “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 center 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.”

12,000 Square Meters

Tesh Durvasula, CEO at Africa Data Centres
“Cape Town is a thriving city and the second largest economy in South Africa and we are seeing significant growth in the data center market in the region,” said Tesh Durvasula, CEO at Africa Data Centres.

The construction is also a part of Africa Data Centres’ extensive development plan for the continent, which will see the business construct several more facilities there. Africa Data Centres is increasing its investments in the African data center market and is focusing on Cape Town as a location for deployments in order to provide customers with a variety of top-notch facilities. Customers may now set up numerous locations for redundancy or just to give them more options on the market.

In terms of size, the new to build data center will be 12,000 square meters of white space or the space available for customers to lease, although the physical site will be much larger than that. “Similarly, although many competitors speak of the load in actual power, we prefer to think about this number from a customer’s perspective and always work on IT load,” added Durvasula.

The company’s flagship Midrand facility in Johannesburg and the second facility in Cape Town are both being constructed using Africa Data Centres’ new standard modular architecture, which will be used throughout Africa in a variety of markets. The modular architecture developed by Africa Data Centres would guarantee quick scalability and a standardized design that allows the data center to be stocked as and when necessary.

Many of the undersea cable landing sites are located near Cape Town, making it an excellent location for data centers. Customers have the option of deploying in two places thanks to the new data center’s positioning to provide regional redundancy from the company’s existing facility, which is located in the city’s southernmost region.