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- 19 Apr 2022
Google Opens First Product Development Centre in Africa
Google has announced its first product development centre in Africa, to be located in Nairobi. The new product development centre will help to create transformative products and services for people…
- 20 May 2019
Sanwo-Olu Excited over Microsoft Africa Development Centre, says technology is new economy
Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor-elect has expressed joy over the launch of the Microsoft Africa Development Centre in Lagos. The governor-elect, who attended the launch on Friday…
- 20 May 2019
Microsoft opens Africa Development Centre (ADC) Site in Lagos
Microsoft over the weekend opened Nigeria’s site of its first Africa Development Centre (ADC). The centre, which is Microsoft’s 7th globally, is recruiting world-class African engineering talent to…
- 21 May 2023
Microsoft Africa Development Centre to Host EnterpriseCEO Media Master Class
In a move aimed at advancing media training in Africa, Microsoft Africa Development Centre will host this year's edition of EnterpriseCEO Media Master in its state of the art facility in Ikoyi,…
- 19 Dec 2021
Rack Centre LGS1 Data Centre Expansion Wins MEA Data Centre Development Award
Rack Centre, the leading carrier neutral data centre colocation provider in West Africa, has emerged the winner at the Data Centre Dynamics (DCD) global award, the first for the Middle East and…
- 5 Sept 2021
Africa Data Centres Plans to Build Large Hyperscale Data Centres Across the Continent
Africa’s leading carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, Africa Data Centres has announced plans to build large hyperscale data centres throughout Africa, including the North African…
- 28 Oct 2025
Research ICT Africa Develops AI Framework for Africa
Non-profit think tank and research network Research ICT Africa (RIA) has developed the Just AI Framework of Inquiry. The contextually-grounded and action-oriented position paper aims to help African…
- 18 May 2023
Africa Data Centres to Start Construction on a New Facility in Accra
Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, announces that it will shortly start construction on its newly acquired…
- 6 May 2024
Africa Data Centres Unveils ADC Channel Programme
Africa Data Centres, a division of the Cassava Technologies group, is excited to announce the launch of its exclusive channel partner programme, ADC Channel. This programme is designed to establish…
- 22 Jan 2023
Africa Data Centres Breaks Ground on New Sameer Facility in Nairobi
Africa Data Centres has broken ground on its new facility in Nairobi; The new build will expand its existing data centre by up to 15MW of IT load; The facility will be built in the company's…
- 17 Nov 2021
Innovate With C#: Microsoft ADC Set to Host Programmer, Developers in Africa
Microsoft Africa Development Center (Microsoft ADC), the engineering center for Microsoft is set to kick off its first skill-based user group event on the 18th of November, 2021 tagged 'Innovate with…
- 2 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Named Beacon of Information and Communication Technology's Carrier Neutral Data Centre of the Year
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has been named 'Carrier Neutral Data Centre of the Year' at this year's Beacon of Information and…
- 29 Jun 2016
Rack Centre Appoints Udoaka as New Business Development Director
Rack Centre, West Africa’s Premium Data Centre colocation provider has announced Mr Frederick Udoaka as joining its executive leadership team as business development director. Udoaka joined from MTN…
- 17 Sept 2019
Microsoft Appoints Gafar Lawal MD of African Development Centre in Nigeria
Microsoft has appointed Gafar Lawal as the managing director of its Africa Development Centre in Nigeria, launched in May 2019. It would be recalled that earlier in the year, Microsoft opened Africa…
- 31 Mar 2020
ADC Ranks Africa Data Centres, As Nigeria Shows Growth Potentials
Africa Data Centres, the pan-African network of vendor-and carrier-neutral datacentres, has ranked Kenya in second place just behind South Africa in terms of the growth and development of its…
- 11 Sept 2015
MIT’s Legatum Centre to Support Africa Techpreneurship via DEMO Africa
DEMO Africa 2015 has attracted the attention of the US-based Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Legatum Centre at MIT has now…
- 20 Aug 2020
Africa Data Centres, Benya Cables Partner on fiber Optic Technology & Equipment
Two of the biggest names on the African continent, Africa Data Centres and Benya Cables are entering into a strategic supply agreement to secure continuous sourcing of critical fiber optic technology…
- 18 Feb 2026
Africa’s Active Data Centres' Capacity on Back Foot, Despite Investment Push
With its meteoric rise in data centre development and it accounting for 20% of the global population, Africa still only has 0.6% of global data centre capacity. This is based on the 2026 Economic…
- 6 Apr 2021
Africa Data Centres Commits to West African Hub with Lagos Datacentre
Africa Data Centres, the pan-African network of interconnected, carrier-and cloud-neutral datacentres and part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has confirmed a significant investment into the…
- 22 Aug 2022
Africa Data Centres Draws $83m of DFC Investment to Drive Expansion Plan
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, is executing an ambitious plan to build datacentres in ten of Africa’s largest economic capitals – and has drawn US$83-million, the first…
- 17 Feb 2025
IoT West Africa & Data Centre Cloud Expo 2025 Set to Boost Africa’s $180Bn Digital Economy
The IoT West Africa & Data Centre Cloud Expo 2025, co-located with Power and Water Nigeria, is poised to play a crucial role in boosting Africa's digital economy, projected to reach $180 billion…
- 30 Oct 2018
Ayotunde Coker Elected Secretary General of Newly Formed Africa Data Centre Association
Dr. Ayotunde Coker, the Managing Director of Rack Centre, Africa’s premium colocation data centre has been elected by his African peers as the Secretary General of the newly formed African Data…
- 20 May 2026
Systems, Not Skin Colour, Hold the Key to Africa’s Development, Says Evans Woherem
A Nigerian development scholar, Evans Woherem, has argued that Africa’s slow pace of development is rooted less in the capabilities of its people and more in the weakness of its institutions,…
- 19 Jun 2022
Rack Centre Becomes the First IFC EDGE Certified Data Centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Rack Centre, an Actis majority owned data centre and the leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in West Africa, has become the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE certified data…
- 6 May 2022
International Girls in ICT Day 2022: Microsoft Africa Development Center Inspires Schoolgirls on STEM Education
The International Girls in ICT Day was celebrated globally on April 28th, 2022, and the team at the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC), West Africa, celebrated the day at an intimate event…
- 16 Jun 2022
Rack Centre now First IFC EDGE Certified Data Centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Rack Centre, an Actis majority owned data centre and the leading carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in West Africa, has become the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) EDGE certified data…
- 26 Sept 2024
West Africa’s Data Centre Market – Growth Requires Skills, and OEMs can Help
By Faith Waithaka, With some of Africa’s biggest data centre providers now based in West Africa, it would be safe to say that the region is going that an era of tremendous and even unprecedented…
- 7 Feb 2020
Africa Data Centres Association Seeks Greater Investment in 2020
Africa's datacentre market features 85 competitors from 54 countries within a continent that is home to 1.3billion people, and with an overall geographic area similar to Paris or Amsterdam, it is…
- 21 Jul 2016
Africa Data Centre Market Faces Skill Challenges
Gerhard Nel, global technology operations at Standard Bank, said that African countries are making an effort in building up their data centre infrastructure, but are challenged by skills and…
- 27 Jul 2020
Huawei Launches Africa Cloud and AI Innovation Centre
Huawei has launched a South Africa-based Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation Centre to drive innovation, knowledge transfer and economic growth through app development in the AI…