{"id":187061,"date":"2016-11-14T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=187061"},"modified":"2016-11-14T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:48:17","slug":"huge-new-data-centre-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/187061-huge-new-data-centre-for-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge new data centre for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco has started construction on a new data centre in\u00a0River Fields Bredell, 20km north of\u00a0its Johannesburg facility in Isando.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the new 24MW\u00a0data centre will proceed while Teraco finalises the expansion of Isando to 20MW.<\/p>\n<p>Isando&#8217;s expansion will be finished in\u00a0December 2016 and the target for the new site&#8217;s completion is September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco CEO Lex van Wyk said that this will bring their\u00a0total\u00a0power supply to 50MW by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teraco will be comparable to global data centres and by a large margin, Africa\u2019s biggest data centre provider,&#8221; said Van Wyk.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the expansion to Bredell, Teraco said it will extend NAPAfrica, its free\u00a0Internet Exchange Point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to ensure that all our clients are able to benefit from the peering exchange and all the technology within existing Teraco data centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/186177-napafrica-is-doing-over-100gbps-of-traffic.html\">NAPAfrica is doing over 100Gbps of traffic<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco has started building a new 24 megawatt data centre in Bredell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,445,441],"class_list":["post-187061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-lex-van-wyk","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187061"}],"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=187061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187069,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187061\/revisions\/187069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}