Orange Morocco has officially launched its latest infrastructure, the “Orange Tech” data centre, in Casablanca. The facility was inaugurated on 19 November and marks a significant step forward in the country’s digital landscape.
With an initial capacity of 1.5 megawatts, the data centre is designed to address increasing demands for hosting, cloud services, and cybersecurity, aligning with Morocco’s strategic goal of strengthening its digital sovereignty.
Orange Morocco described the new centre as a key asset to its role as a trusted partner for both businesses and government agencies, underpinning the nation’s ongoing digital transformation. Built on a sprawling 15,000-square-meter site, Orange Tech combines operational redundancy with a focus on environmental sustainability. The facility features a technical room designed to meet UPTIME standards for high availability and is equipped with over 1,000 solar panels, generating approximately 700 kilowatts peak (kWp). This eco-friendly setup aims to promote self-consumption and reduce the carbon footprint associated with hosted services.
The infrastructure is tailored to support various workloads, including hosting, cloud computing, and AI-powered applications, with the capacity to meet the high availability requirements of mission-critical government and business services. The launch aligns closely with Morocco’s ambitious “Morocco Digital 2030” strategy and the “New Development Model,” both of which emphasize digital sovereignty, infrastructure expansion, and skills development as key pillars of national progress.
This development comes at a time when Orange Morocco is advancing its efforts in 5G deployment, artificial intelligence, and expanding its business-to-business (B2B) services portfolio. For corporate and government clients, the new data centre promises enhanced security for locally stored data, increased service resilience, and improved performance. It also opens new avenues for deploying sovereign cloud computing, local AI applications, and mission-critical hosting with high availability.
On a broader regional scale, the data centre addresses a significant gap in African infrastructure, where, as of mid-2023, the continent’s share of global colocation data centres remains below 2%, primarily concentrated in South Africa, according to the Oxford Business Group’s report “Data Centres in Africa Focus.” The launch of Orange Tech in Morocco signals a strategic move to support the continent’s growing digital needs and infrastructure development.
