DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Africa, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Teraco breaks ground on 38MW Johannesburg data center
The largest data center in Africa
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Raxio secures land for Tier III data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The company has other facilities planned in the DRC and Mozambique
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Liquid Telecom raises $307m for business expansion
Including from a UK government-backed investment agency
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Telecom Egypt to build 'country's largest' colocation data center in 2021
In a smart village near Cairo
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Arup finalizes designs for Rack Centre expansion in Lagos, Nigeria
The planning stage is done
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NTT's Dimension Data begins construction of Johannesburg data center
The new facility will almost double Dimension's IT load in Africa
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Ethiopia plans national data center for cloud storage
The facility will be used by government agencies and private citizens
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Africa DC finalizes takeover of Standard Bank's South Africa facility
Masiyiwa personally pitched the sale to investors, according to reports
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Rack Centre to expand its campus in Lagos, Nigeria
The expansion will massively increase the data center's capacity
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PAIX Data Centres to build facility in Nairobi, Kenya
This is part of the company's planned expansion across Africa
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Report: Covid-19 hampers Zimbabwean billionaire's plan to sell Liquid Telecom stake
Liquid Telecom's owner Strive Masiyiwa has debts to pay
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Huawei equips Cameroon gov't data center, helps Rain's South Africa 5G project
Huawei is at the helm of the continent's digitization
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Alphabet's Loon balloons up and floating over Kenya
Internet-by-balloon service gets its first commercial outing
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China Mobile and Facebook in joint project to build 2Africa submarine cable
Along with a number of the biggest telcos in Africa
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Teraco to expand Joburg campus, and build in Cape Town
The company made the two big announcements last week
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Africa DC's purchase of Samrand data center approved by officials
The company says the new buy is a hidden gem
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Africa DC buys Standard Bank's Johannesburg data center
And plans to expand the site further
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Ugandan data center to finish construction in June
The new facility could open up a lot of economic opportunities for locals
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Central African countries sign deals to get submarine cable and new data center
The region went dark for a while after the West African Cable got cut
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Rwandan Government data center offline after cyber attack
It's not the first time the data center has been attacked
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African Internet slows after submarine cables break
Repairs to take place over the weekend