Afrigather Cassava Applied sciences-backed information centre constructor, Africa Knowledge Centres, has introduced that it’s constructing one other information centre facility in Cape City. The brand new facility could have an IT load of 20MW and is anticipated to be up and operating by mid-2024.
In keeping with a press launch by the corporate, the development of the information centre is a part of the group’s ongoing funding in infrastructure within the Western Cape province, and displays its confidence within the financial system of the province and of South Africa, the continent’s largest IT infrastructure and companies market.
“Cape City is a thriving metropolis and the second largest financial system in South Africa. It’s considered the nation’s IT and software program hub, and we’re seeing vital progress within the information centre market within the area. It’s a most popular web site for each world and native suppliers of cloud software program and IT companies,” mentioned Tesh Durvasula, CEO of Africa Knowledge Centres.
Africa Knowledge Centres additional added that the ability can also be a part of its wide-scale African growth drive, which is able to see the corporate constructing a number of new services throughout the continent.
“This second information centre facility in Cape City will increase the variety of our information centres in South Africa to 4 and is a part of our funding program to ship an extra ten information centres in Africa,” mentioned Hardy Pemhiwa, Group President & CEO of Cassava Applied sciences.
Regardless of its urgent energy challenges introduced on by state-owned electrical energy supplier Eskom’s seemingly never-ending troubles, South Africa continues to cement its place as the information centre hub of the continent.
Aside from the likes of Africa Knowledge Centres constructing services within the nation, tech giants together with Amazon, Google, Oracle, and Microsoft have additionally arrange cloud areas within the nation, placing the nation on observe to learn from the booming Africa information centre business with a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15%.
