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African data centre market in the midst of an 'unprecedented growth surge'

Published in Design + Optimisation Hosting + Colocation

African commercial hosting capacity expected to triple over the next five years, to support explosive data traffic flows and accelerated adoption of cloud services.

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Energy efficiency looms large for data centre industry

Published in Design + Optimisation Energy Management Hosting + Colocation Infrastructure + Asset Management Infrastructure + Hardware Power & Cooling

Managing consumption and carbon footprint driving trends toward regulation, standardisation, and the search for generator alternatives.

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Africa Data Centres extends edge cloud capability through Unitellas partnership

Published in Cloud Cloud + MS Hosting + Colocation

Expansion into West Africa builds on South African implementation.

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Africa Data Centres to become the first East African, EDGE® certified facility

Published in Hosting + Colocation

EDGE® certification is a green building certification system for emerging markets created by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.

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Teraco announces regional interconnection with Google Equiano cable

Published in Hosting + Colocation

Teraco, Africa’s largest provider of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable.

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Raxio Group breaks ground for construction of Raxio Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire

Published in Hosting + Colocation

The Raxio Group, a leading pan-African data centre developer and operator, held a ground-breaking ceremony marking the start of construction of its fifth – and Côte d’Ivoire’s first – Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre, located at the Village of Innovation and Technology (VITIB) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Global Technical Realty announces GB One milestone

Global Technical Realty (GTR), a $1bn European build-to-suit data center platform – has announced...

First energy transition data centre starts in Essen

RWE Supply & Trading integrates data centres into the energy transition.

OVHcloud introduces bare metal 2026 server line

OVHcloud introduces its Bare Metal 2026 lineup, powered by AMD processors, offering...

Antti Poikola helps steer Finland towards sustainable data infrastructure

Antti “Jogi” Poikola takes charge of FDCA to strengthen Finland's data centre industry.

Cooling challenges and transitions in modern data centres

Exploring the role of low-GWP refrigerants in the data centre industry's push for sustainability.

Heat reuse enabled mega site in Kouvola

Initial 60MW phase due second half 2025, to provide heat and hot water to the surrounding community.

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Elektrobit Case Study: Enable Immense Data Intake to Support Autonomous Driving

Automated vehicles record and process massive amounts of data daily with simulations and high capacity sensors. For Elektrobit, a global supplier of connected software for the automotive industry, the biggest challenge was how to securely store, transfer and process these large amounts of data. The interconnection-first approach, deployed on Platform Equinix®, provided Elektrobit the fastest and most stable option available. Find out how Equinix, with its global data centers and digital edge presence, boosted efficiency, performance, reliability and security for Elektrobit.

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