South Africa's biggest data centres

[mylesillidge]

Biggest data centres in South Africa

South Africa's largest data centre is Teraco's Isando campus in Johannesburg, which provides roughly 32,000m2 of hosting space and can support 70MW of critical IT load.

Data centre capacity has expanded rapidly in South Africa as local Internet access has grown, increasing the space needed for content and services hosted closer to users in the country.

 

[Johand]

I wonder if we can deduce the hyperscalers data center sizes. If I remember correctly Fortress published some information on AWS being a tenant at one of their industrial parks.

But as far as I understand they place around 50000 servers in a region, and at 1kw per server (that includes server, cooling and networking - think it is a conservative to the low side assumption) and 3 availability zones they should have about 17MW data centers minimum. I would assume the have some headroom so probably more than that. That is my guess... Anybody got more info?

 

[redspark]

SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity

Durban is pressing ahead with plans to build a massive 400MW artificial intelligence data centre in partnership with a South Korean power consortium. It would be South Africa’s biggest digital data ce…

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