Teraco announces big data centre upgrade
Teraco has announced a 30 megawatt (MW) expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre facility in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
The company expects to complete the expansion project in early 2025, incorporating the latest environmentally sustainable cooling and water management designs.
Teraco said CT2’s expansion is being built in line with global hyperscale requirements.
On completion, CT2 will comprise 73,000 square metres of building structure serviced by 90 megavolt-amperes of utility power supply.
The expansion will double the number of data halls to 16, increasing the facility’s deployment space to 18,000 square metres.
CT2 Phase 2 will comprise four data halls of 5.3MW, two data halls of 3.1MW, and a further two data halls of 2.2MW.
The entire facility will support an IT load of 50MW.
Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo said the new CT2 facility offers enterprises a scalable platform for IT infrastructure deployment while providing performance, reliability, stringent security, and the widest choice of carriers and network service providers.
“Teraco is committed to growing its capacity footprint across its core hubs,” Hnizdo stated.
“We continue to invest significantly in the region’s ICT infrastructure and have built out Africa’s largest data centre platform,” he said.
“We take pride in enabling open access interconnection and providing world-class data centre infrastructure for our clients.”
As part of Teraco’s Cape Town Campus, CT2 is connected to CT1 with diverse fibre routes and provides enterprises with direct access to over 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, access to over 50 managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica.
Clients deployed in either of these facilities can connect directly to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute or via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange.
CT2 is the latest expansion to Teraco’s growing data centre platform.
It increases the critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to 185MW, which includes the Isando Campus JB1/JB3/JB5 (70MW), Bredell Campus JB2/JB4 (64MW), Cape Town Campus CT1/CT2 (50MW), and Durban (1MW).
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