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South Africa Continues to Develop Data Centers to Address High Demand
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NEW DELHI April 19, 2021 Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) South Africa has been investing heavily in data centers to meet a surge in demand fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Etix Everywhere and Teraco Data Environments are two of the biggest companies at work on several new data centers in South Africa.
The Africa data center market by investment is expected to grow at a CAGR of approx. 15% during the period 2020–2026 In-depth Analysis and Data-driven Insights on the Impact of COVID-19 Included in this Africa Data Center Market Report. The Africa data center market by investment is expected to grow at a CAGR of approx.
April 16, 2021 08:47 ET | Source: ReportLinker ReportLinker Lyon, FRANCE
New York, April 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report Data Center Market in Africa - Industry Outlook and Forecast 2021-2026 - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05822887/?utm source=GNW 15% during the period 2020–2026.
The Africa data center market size by investment was valued at USD 2 billion in 2020 and is expected to USD 5 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 15% during 2021-2026. The data center market expects to observe growth because of the flurry of factors – renewab
Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest data centre provider, is considering expanding to Nigeria and Kenya, CEO Jan Hnizdo reveals.
The company could create data centres of between 1MW and 4MW in those countries, Hnizdo says from Johannesburg. Nigeria and Kenya have the liberalised telecoms sectors that data centres need, he adds.
Growing numbers of African internet users make it harder to serve the continent’s needs via offshore data centres in Europe or the US. Local capacity means faster connections speeds, and Africa’s data centre market is set to grow at a compound annual rate of more than 12% to reach $3bn in 2025, according to Turner & Townsend.
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Hyperscale data centres being built in Ethiopia and South Africa will, when completed, be the biggest ICT multitenant facilities on the continent, underscoring a steady buildout of the cloud and telecoms infrastructure necessary for service providers to meet growing enterprise digital transformation requirements.
The South African data centre, being built by Teraco Data Environments, will help shore up the country s leadership position in ICT infrastructure on the continent, while the Ethiopian facility, constructed by Wingu Africa, will bring much-needed computing power to the East Africa region.
In Ethiopia, the planned 22MW hyperscale data centre located on the outskirts of Addis Ababa will bolster backbone communications infrastructure in the East African region, said Anthony Voscarides, group CEO and co-founder of Wingu Africa.