Pan-African data center provider Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced that the expansion of its CPT1 facility in Cape Town, South Africa, is live.
The Cassava Technologies-owned company has added three new data halls to its campus; two for colocation and one hyperscale hall.
The expansion has added 1,000 racks of white space for lease and 6MW of IT capacity.
Prior to the expansion, the facility offered 5.5MW of IT capacity across 2,700 sqm (29,000 sq ft) of IT space.
The facility has hybrid cooling and is powered by renewable energy. The company signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Distributed Power Africa in March 2023 for its South Africa operations.
“The introduction of wheeled solar power at the CPT1 facility offers significant benefits to our customers, providing a truly sustainable data center solution. As the demand for data continues to skyrocket across Africa, a continent where power supply is often intermittent, the need for reliable, cost-effective, and green power has never been more critical,” said Finhai Munzara, interim CEO of Africa Data Centres
The facility also houses the Cape Town Internet Exchange and is located within proximity to nearby cable landing stations, said ADC.
The company added that the expansion was implemented with the support of the US via a $300 million loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation.
“This expansion by Africa Data Centres is in response to the increasing demand for colocation capacity in South Africa. Not only is Cape Town the second largest economy in South Africa, but it is also the de facto software and technology hub in Southern Africa,” said Hardy Pemhiwa, president and CEO of Cassava Technologies.
ADC secured a $109m loan last month for the build-out of a second facility in Cape Town. The facility is expected to have an IT load of 20MW.
ADC operates two other South African facilities in the Samrand and Midrand areas of Johannesburg. The company also operates data centers in Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria. Last year, the company announced plans to expand its portfolio in Kigali, Rwanda; Lome, Togo; and add a 30MW data center in Accra, Ghana.
Former CEO of ADC, Tesh Durvasula, left the company in May this year to join AtlasEdge. ADC has yet to name a permanent successor.
