DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Africa, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Ivory Coast targets launch of first state-owned data center in 2027
Will be backed by US Export-Import Bank
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Digital Realty launches 6.4MW data center in Nairobi, Kenya
While iColo joins Digital Realty brand
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Nigeria's Danfodiyo University data center damaged in storm
Equipment damaged and network services disrupted
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Mozambique's cloud provider Bubble to operate with two availability zones
Aims to provide greater redundancy
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Google plans "connectivity hub" in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Will be the first of four hubs in Africa
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Microsoft and G42 data center in Kenya stalled due to lack of power capacity
Data center was first announced in May 2024
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QGroup launches data center in The Gambia, claims it is the country's first
While government data center gets inaugurated in Angola
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Oracle launches cloud region in Casablanca, Morocco
N+One Datacenters serves as hosting partner
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Benin wants to establish a secondary national data center
Would be developed to provide redundancy to existing facility
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Atlancis and EverseTech launch sovereign AI cloud in Kenya
Hosted at iXAfrica data center in Nairobi
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Equity Bank Uganda migrates data center operations to Raxio Data Center in Namanve, Uganda
Aims to improve resilience of operations and speed up transaction time
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Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in "global south"
Some of which will be spent on AI infrastructure
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Government of Mali launches data center in Bamako
Data center designed to meet Tier III standards
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Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon
Working with Gabonese government and Cisco on project
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Gov't of Burkina Faso launches two "mini data centers" to support data sovereignty
Two data centers offer a combined storage capacity of 3PB
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India's RailTel to develop gov't data center for Ethiopia
Will be located in Addis Adaba for Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Chad invests €175m in national data center and networks
Phase I of the State Connectivity Infrastructure Modernization Project begins
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Ethiopian Electric Utility leases space at Wingu data center in Addis Ababa
EEU aims to improve reliability, security, and efficiency for its digital operations
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Vodacom to migrate data assets to Google Cloud
Pan-African telco will move its data to the cloud platform
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Visa launches data center in Johannesburg, South Africa
Data center result of almost $57 million investment
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Payment services company Visa plans data center in Nigeria
Company has already invested $1 billion in the country
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Ecoblox and Tenstorrent team up for AI and HPC in the Middle East
Ready to work together to meet increasing demand
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Microsoft to invest $300m in cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa
Will also launch program to improve young peoples' digital skills
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Huawei launches cloud region in Nigeria
Announced at Huawei Cloud Summit Nigeria 2024
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Huawei wins $3m cloud computing contract from United Bank for Africa
IBM faces competition in Nigerian banking sector
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Orange Business completes first phases of data center infrastructure for Grifols Egypt
Data center located in Egypt's New Administrative Capital
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Gold mining company Gold Fields moves to AWS
Miner has migrated SAP and treasury systems to AWS
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Raxio Group inaugurates $30m data center in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kinshasa gets 1.5MW data center