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- 7 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Builds 30MW Data Centre Facility in Expansion Drive to Ghana
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology group, has announced that it is building a 30MW data centre facility in Accra, Ghana. The new facility will lay…
- 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…
- 15 Jun 2022
Africa Data Centres Expands South African Footprint with New 20MW Facility in Cape Town
Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce building a second data centre in Cape Town, South Africa. The new 20MW facility…
- 2 Dec 2025
Africa Data Centres Partners CSSi SA to Boost Data Sovereignty in South Africa
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, has entered into a strategic partnership with CSSi SA, a leading cloud and virtual machine provider, to strengthen data sovereignty and expand…
- 11 Mar 2022
Africa Data Centres Makes Case for in-country Hosting of Cloud Services
Africa Data Centres, one of the data center service providers in Africa and boast of the continent's first network of interconnected, carrier and cloud-neutral data center facilities has called for…
- 7 Aug 2018
21st Century Technologies Becomes First Data Centre to Secure MTCS Certification in Africa
21 st Century Technologies has become the first data center in Africa to achieve Multi-tier cloud security (MTCS) standard. This standard describes the relevant cloud computing security practices and…
- 13 Sept 2022
Africa Data Centres Joins Forces with Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN)
Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities in Africa, and part of the Cassava Technologies group, has taken a significant step…
- 28 Apr 2022
Digital Economy Offers Potentials for Data Centres - Durvasula
Tesh Durvasula was recently appointed chief executive officer of Africa Data Centre. In a chat with chike onwuegbuchi, he explained the potentials of ADC’s new facility located in Lagos. What is the…
- 12 Feb 2018
NITRA Hosts Data Centre Operators at Breakfast Meeting
Chief Executive Officers of Nigeria’s leading Data Centre Service providers- MainOne, Medallion Communications, and Rack Centre will be guests to the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters…
- 30 Jun 2024
“We are Building Largest Data Centre in West Africa- MTN CTO
In a move to enhance Nigeria's digital infrastructure, MTN Nigeria has announced the construction of West Africa's largest data centre. Mohammed Rufai, Chief Technical Officer, MTN Nigeria This new…
- 4 Aug 2015
NSE, Rack Centre Ink Partnership on Data Centre Colocation Services
Mr Oscar N. Onyema, chief executive officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has stressed the importance that technology has played in the quest to transform the NSE. This is even as the NSE itself…
- 17 May 2023
Ranganath, Director Africa Data Centres to Keynote ABoICT Lecture 2023
CommunicationsWeek Media Limited, a certified global ICT company with over two million online subscribers, is delighted and proud to announce Dr Krishnan Ranganath, regional director, Africa Data…
- 30 May 2022
Dr. Krish Wins 2022 Data Centre Personality Award @BoICT Awards
Dr. Krishnan Ranganath, a senior global executive with expertise in data centre operations and other business focus has won the Data Centre Personality Award of the Year Award at the Beacon of…
- 12 Mar 2024
Airtel Africa Commences Construction of Nxtra, Airtel’s First Data Centre in Nigeria
Airtel Africa, provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, has officially broken ground on its first data centre in Lagos, Nigeria. Nxtra…
- 24 Nov 2022
ADC Provides Colocation for the first ICANN Managed Root Server in Africa
Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, is proud to be the colocation provider for the first ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster deployed in…
- 21 Mar 2018
Opeke Highlights Data Centre Hosting, Cloud investment @ TMT Finance Africa
Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, has highlighted the opportunity for increased investment in shared fiber network infrastructure and data center and cloud computing infrastructure in…
- 13 May 2026
Africa to get AI Data Centres Through Three-way Partnership
Localised, industrial-grade artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure will be delivered across Africa and the Global South, following a strategic alliance between sovereign AI…
- 18 Feb 2018
Data Centre Operators Canvass for More Players in Industry
Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA), on Friday in Lagos, gathered Chief Executive Officers of leading Data Centre Service providers to a breakfast meeting, tagged: ‘Breakfast…
- 12 Aug 2018
21st Century Technologies Makes History with First MTCS Certification in Africa
21st Century Technologies has become the first data center in Africa to achieve Multi-tier cloud security (MTCS) standard. This standard describes the relevant cloud computing security…
- 1 Oct 2021
Cloud Exchange Partners Huawei to Launch Africa’s First Tier IV Prefabricated Data Centre
Cloud Exchange, a system Integrator in West Africa and a provider of end-to-end Information Technology (IT) system solutions, has officially launched Africa's first uptime institute tier IV modular…
- 30 May 2018
Schneider Electric, 21st Century Technology Partner on Tier IV Data Centres
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with 21st Century Technology to provide trusted EcoStruxture ITTM solutions…
- 31 May 2018
Schneider Electric, 21st Century Technology Ink Agreement on Tier IV Data Centres In Nigeria
Schneider Electric has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with 21st Century Technology to provide trusted EcoStruxture ITTM solutions in the first Tier IV data centres in Nigeria that 21st…
- 5 Feb 2024
IXPN Establishes Point of Presence (POP) @ Open Access Data Centres
The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has officially activated its Point of Presence (PoP) at OADC Lagos, which is owned and operated by Open Access Data Centres (OADC), one of Africa's…
- 7 Apr 2024
WIOCC, Open Access Data Centres Drive STEM Inspiration at Sammy Bright School in Lagos
WIOCC Group, the parent company of WIOCC, Africa’s digital backbone; and Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Africa’s fastest-growing data centre company; elevated their Corporate Social Responsibility…
- 1 Oct 2023
Data Centre Stakeholders Rally Behind Telecoms Sector Sustainability Forum 4.0
The fourth edition of the Telecoms Sector Sustainability Forum (TSSF 4.0), organized by Business Remarks and themed “Mainstreaming Data Centres in the Nigerian Digital Economy,” is set to take place…
- 8 Jan 2013
KITS Makes Case for Energy Efficient Data Centre
Taofeek Okoya, director, Business and strategy, KITS Technologies has flaunted the economic gains that Data Centre Operators across Nigeria and west Africa stands to benefit if energy efficiency is…
- 7 Dec 2025
Nigeria Lacks AI-Ready Data Centres, Trails in Capacity - Nnamani
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, chief executive officer, Digital Realty Nigeria, says the country currently has no data centres designed for core Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications despite the…
- 30 Oct 2013
MainOne to Connect N4Bn Data Centre Q2 2014
MainOne, West Africa’s leading open access submarine cable company yesterday recorded another telecommunication milestone in the subregion as it performed the ground breaking ceremony for its $25…
- 7 Mar 2024
Airtel Africa To Host Ground-Breaking Event for New NXtra Data Centre in Lagos
Airtel Africa is set to host a ground-breaking ceremony to kick off the construction of its first NXtra Data Center. The event, scheduled to hold on the 12th of March 2024 at Eko Atlantic, Victoria…
- 27 Mar 2018
Avanti Gateway Earth Station Goes Live in MDXI Data Centre
MDXI data centre, a subsidiary of MainOne, has partnered with Avanti Communications Group Plc (“Avanti”), a leading British satellite operator, to host and manage the satellite operator’s in-country…