{"id":156865,"date":"2016-02-29T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=156865"},"modified":"2016-02-29T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:25:52","slug":"teraco-building-africas-biggest-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/156865-teraco-building-africas-biggest-data-centre.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco building Africa&#8217;s biggest data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco is building\u00a0Africa\u2019s largest data centre, said the company, adding a\u00a017,500sqm extension to its\u00a0existing colocation\u00a0offering.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco said the build is a milestone for Teraco and the African data centre industry, with the construction bringing the\u00a0total size of its\u00a0Isando, Gauteng facility to 9,000sqm of white space and 18,500sqm of utility space.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco\u2019s new site should be operational towards the end of 2016, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After completing an environmental impact assessment, Teraco was granted permission to store 210,000 litres of diesel on site,&#8221; said Teraco.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0will enable Teraco to run all the data centres for a minimum period of 40 hours at maximum load in the event of power failure.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on hosting and storage<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/155653-mtns-gallo-manor-data-centre-did-not-experience-downtime.html\">MTN\u2019s Gallo Manor Data Centre did not experience downtime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco is building Africa\u2019s largest data centre, said the company, adding a 17,500sqm extension to its existing colocation offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,447,441],"class_list":["post-156865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-data-centre","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156871,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156865\/revisions\/156871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}