JB5 is a 30MW data centre that will house Teraco’s first at-scale artificial intelligence workloads. CEO Jan Hnizdo gave TechCentral a tour.
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It’s the equivalent of transferring more than 130 000 digital songs over the network every second.
Teraco has signed a power purchase agreement for wind-powered renewable energy for its sprawling data centres.
Paratus Botswana has commenced work on lighting a new fibre route, the SADC Highway.
Teraco has raised an R8-billion syndicated loan and announced it will build a 40MW “hyperscale” data centre in Johannesburg.
Teraco, South Africa’s largest data centre operator, has begun construction of a 120MW solar plant in the Free State.
NAPAfrica is now the seventh largest internet exchange point globally, having topped 4.5Tbit/s in peering traffic.
The 10 largest data centres in South Africa have a combined IT load of 258MW, with total whitespace of 112 000sq m.
The Johannesburg Internet Exchange now has a peering point at NTT Data’s new data centre north of the city.
Datacentrix will host the next iteration of its iconic Datacentrix Showcase event on 22 August in Johannesburg.