Africa’s data centre industry grows amid challenges and opportunities
13 October 2025
Africa is experiencing a surge in interest from data centre investors, driven by the continent’s rapid digital transformation. However, despite this growing enthusiasm, the sector faces significant hurdles rooted in structural issues, according to a recent report by the Africa Data Centers Association (ADCA).
In early October, Raxio Group celebrated the opening of a $30 million data centre in Angola, marking a key milestone in its expansion efforts supported by $100 million in funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). This development underscores the increasing investment activity in Africa’s promising data infrastructure sector.
Poor heat management in data centre design – the silent risk
19 August 2025
In South Africa, many conversations about data centre resilience have tended to centre on power, but today, backup power is a given – no credible data centre provider operates without it. The real differentiator lies elsewhere, in the efficiency and precision of the data centre’s design and operations. Managing airflow, controlling humidity, building the most effective and efficient cooling systems, and planning the physical layout are all essential.
When these factors are overlooked, the consequences are serious: degraded hardware performance, increased energy consumption, higher operating costs, and potential downtime that disrupts business, resulting in revenue loss and reputational damage. Designing a world-class data centre goes beyond simply keeping servers on during load shedding; it is about ensuring they run efficiently, reliably, and within the precise environmental conditions they were built and designed for.
Mastering SaaS: How DE-CIX and Microsoft are streamlining collaboration and connectivity for enterprise
04 August 2025
by Harald Kriener, Head of Customer Success Management, DE-CIX
The way we work today depends not just on cloud applications, but on how well those applications work together. When we think about collaboration, our focus usually moves toward messaging or video calls. While it’s important that those applications work well in isolation, real collaboration is a much broader picture.
It’s the seamless handoff between Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and dozens of connected applications and workflows that span organizations, and sometimes even span oceans and continents. Organizations rely on these handoffs to share information, manage approvals, and stay aligned. But when those handoffs aren’t optimized and platforms don’t “talk” to each other quickly enough, the result is friction, frustration, and lost time.
