30 December 2025

Ajay Kareer, Data Centre Market Manager, HARTING Ltd

The world’s data appetite is insatiable — and data centres are paying the electric bill. According to the International Data Corporation, global energy consumption per server is rising by around 9% each year. Servers might be shrinking in size, but their power needs are growing — and that’s a costly combination. With energy often making up more than half of a data centre’s operating expenses, every watt matters.

29 December 2025

Michalis Grigoratos, CEO, InfraPartners

As African economies continue to evolve amidst unique power constraints and infrastructural challenges, innovative solutions are essential to leapfrog traditional limitations and accelerate digital development. This is especially true when it comes to AI deployments which are projected to drive 70% of future data centre growth, with global capacity expected to triple by 2030. The rapid evolution of AI and other advanced technologies necessitates adaptable, high-capacity data centres.

24 December 2025

Mandla Mbonambi, CEO, Africonology

Africa is a continent in motion. Markets are shifting, industries are evolving, and opportunities are constantly emerging. In this environment, technology cannot be static — it must move with change, not against it.

There’s an uncomfortable truth about technology investment that many enterprises are now confronting, which is the fact that rigidity costs more than it saves. All-in-one systems, long-term vendor dependencies, and software lock-ins are giving way to a new reality, where success depends on how fast an organisation can move, connect, and adapt to disruption.

27 November 2025

Canninah Dladla, Cluster President for English-speaking Africa at Schneider Electric

Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”. This could not be more applicable when it comes to the collection and utilisation of data. And at the heart of this knowledge and resultant information lies the data centre.

Today, most organisations depend on data centres in some capacity, with critical services like healthcare relying on them even more heavily. For example, many hospitals operate with vital electronic health records (EHR) running in the background—information that resides on and is backed up by data centres.

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.