14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (235+ words) South Africa-based Digital Parks Africa (DPA) says it’s expanding into West Africa with plans to develop a new carrier-neutral data centre in Nigeria in association with the Master Power Technologies Group. The new facility, Nigeria Data Centre 1 (NDC1), will be built…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (292+ words) UAE-based data centre operator DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have inaugurated the first phase of a new data centre in Izmir with an initial IT load capacity of 4MW and an investment of US$100 million. The Izmir data centre, launched on…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (234+ words) The LuLu Coastal Cable System the Kenyan coast’s first fully protected coastal cable system, has been announced at this week’s ITW Africa digital infrastructure and connectivity event, held in Nairobi. LuLu is a submarine cable designed to strengthen connectivity along…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (307+ words) Vodafone Business, Cassava Technologies and Elsewedy Electric signed an agreement on Tuesday to establish Africa Data Centers Egypt, a data centre project that will include Egypt's first sovereign AI data centre powered by Nvidia GPUs. Africa Data Centres Egypt aims…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (514+ words) Huawei is betting that a technology called Near-Packaged Optics, or NPO, will become one of the main building blocks of the next generation of AI data centres. The reason is simple: AI requires massive computing power, but it also depends…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (251+ words) Global connectivity provider Telxius says it has built a carrier-neutral, AI-ready landing gateway and edge data centre in Cancun, Mexico that will serve as a new landing point for the upcoming AMX3/Tikal subsea cable linking Guatemala and Florida. Telxius says…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (331+ words) Vietnam is reportedly once again facing disruptions to internet connectivity speeds with four out of six international subsea cable connections now suffering from outages. According to several media reports on Friday, the Southeast Asia–Japan 2 (SJC2) cable and the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (248+ words) Data centre company Equinix has reportedly expanded its Colombia data centre footprint and increased its investment, bringing online the second phase of BG2, its second data centre in Colombia, doubling the site's cabinet capacity in Bogota. The BNamericas website says the…...

3+ week, 17+ min ago   (260+ words) Latin American data centre firm Terranova, the hyperscale data centre platform backed by the Actis infrastructure fund, described as one of the largest and longest-standing sustainable infrastructure investors globally, has started work on a new data centre campus outside Sao…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (292+ words) India is set to see the launch of locally designed smartphones from three companies within the next 10-14 months, as the government pushes manufacturers to develop original devices rather than copy existing products. India's ICT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told The Economic…...