Liquid cooling in African data centres: A turning point in efficiency, resilience and future-ready design
26 November 2025
Leon Kleyn, WSP in Africa
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in how organisations operate, the infrastructure behind these digital tools is undergoing a profound shift. Data centre capacity to power AI processes must increase, and rapidly, by expanding and upgrading existing facilities or building new data centres. The African data centre market is growing quickly: research places current estimated market value at USD 1.94 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach USD 3.85 billion by 2030.
Find out more Building data centres for a hotter, smarter, and more sustainable future
13 November 2025
Dean Wolson, General Manager, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Southern Africa
As Africa’s digital economy accelerates, its data centres have become the continent’s silent powerhouses — sustaining finance, healthcare, cloud, and AI systems that underpin modern life. But they are also at the frontline of the climate crisis. With rising temperatures, volatile weather, and fragile energy grids, operators are rethinking what it means to be resilient, sustainable, and scalable in an era of unprecedented environmental and technological change.
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The evolution of data centre cooling toward AI-ready infrastructure
13 November 2025
Paul Mouton, Afrikamasts
Cooling a data centre has always been a key engineering discipline, but the rise of AI produced heat loads has placed thermal management at the heart of infrastructure strategy.
Traditional server environments, even those with relatively dense configurations, now look modest compared to the high-power, thermally intense AI clusters, powered by PDUs and GPUs. This shift has forced engineers to rethink airflow, liquid cooling systems, redundancy, and long-term sustainability.
Find out more Towards the establishment of a secure, integrated, and attractive African data market
12 November 2025
Didier Hung Wan Luk, CEO, Stellarix; And member of ADCA
Executive summary
Data has become a strategic asset, much like energy and infrastructure, driving public policy, economic growth, and innovation. However, Africa remains largely excluded, hosting just 1% of global data centre capacity and storing less than 10% of its data locally.
To change this, Africa must build a secure, integrated data market governed by harmonised rules and supported by interconnected infrastructure.
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