New R15-billion data centre being built in Johannesburg
Vantage Data Centres has announced it has begun construction on a new R15‐billion state-of-the-art data centre campus in Waterfall, Gauteng.
The first phase of the 80MW campus is scheduled to come online in the third quarter of 2022.
Africa Data Centres buying Standard Bank data centre in Samrand
Africa Data Centres is acquiring Standard Bank's data centre in Samrand, north of Johannesburg, pending approval from South Africa's competition authorities.
The data centre has sufficient power and vacant space for significant...
How South African data centres prepare for load-shedding
Eskom was forced to implement stage 6 load-shedding in December, a level not reached before.
Certain municipalities were underprepared, including Johannesburg electricity distributor City Power -which said at the time it had no...
Putin wants to control the Internet
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law requiring Internet companies to store all personal data of Russian users at data centres in Russia