Data Centre News Africa is provided by Data Centres Africa, the continent’s premier resource for professionals managing the digital bedrock of the region. We provide expert analysis on power resilience, cooling innovations, and subsea connectivity. Explore our latest Case Studies and Expert Opinions from across the pan-African tech landscape.
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Our mission is to provide actionable intelligence through real-world Case Studies, documenting the successful deployment of Tier III and Tier IV facilities. With regular contributions from industry veterans in our Opinion section, we examine the intersection of data sovereignty and socio-economic progress.
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Recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting South African internet infrastructure providers, web hosting companies and connectivity services reflect a broader...
Vertiv, provider of critical digital infrastructure solutions, has expanded its end-to-end thermal chain with the availability of the Vertiv CoolChip CDU...
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has marked a major milestone in Kenya, seeing traffic increase twenty-fold across LINX Nairobi and LINX Mombasa, and...
Qrent, provider of IT asset management and sustainable refurbished technology solutions, says organisations that continue delaying technology refresh cycles in...
Vertiv, provider of critical digital infrastructure solutions, supported Open Access Data Centres (OADC), a WIOCC Group company, in standardising power and cooling...
The global artificial intelligence race is rapidly becoming an energy race. As companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle expand...
PayAngel, a cross-border payments platform built by migrants and shaped by a lived understanding of the migrant journey, has expanded collaboration with Visa,...
Nigeria’s data centre expansion is increasingly being framed as a technology story – but at its core, it is a...
As AI drives an unprecedented surge in data processing, one constraint is becoming increasingly clear: power. Data centres – the...
Read moreDetailsGE Vernova Inc. has launched its Centre of Excellence (COE) for Power Transmission digital services in Casablanca, Morocco. Operational immediately,...
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Flot has selected Velmie as its digital banking system integrator to support the launch of its next-generation neobank across Africa. Together,...
Read moreDetailsPayPal is making PayPal USD (PYUSD) available in 70 markets worldwide in the PayPal account. This dollar-backed stablecoin enables users...
Read moreDetailsLeo LaBranche, CEO of Unified Digital Group (UDG) – a global business consulting and advisory firm – and Geoffrey Levene,...
Read moreDetailsDE-CIX, the Internet Exchange (IX) operator, together with the NGO ‘Internet pour tous’ (Internet For All) and UNITED S.A., an Internet...
Read moreDetailsAcross Africa, data sovereignty is reshaping where information lives, how infrastructure is built, and who controls the flow of the...
Read moreDetailsBy Opeyemi Olaniyan, Offer Manager, Power Products at Schneider Electric West Africa. The safety of electrical infrastructure is non-negotiable, particularly...
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