- Pan-African knowledge centre agency PAIX has upgraded the capability of its Accra, Ghana knowledge centre campus.
- It has added 1.2MW of capability to the centre in an effort to fulfill the ballooning demand for native knowledge consumption.
- The corporate says it’s working to construct new amenities in different African nations.
Nations throughout Africa are rapidly seeing their hyperscale capabilities surge, and whereas South Africa continues to be main the market, different African areas are dashing to catch up. In Ghana, West Africa, PAIX Information Centres has introduced at this time a significant enlargement to its Accra facility.
This enlargement will see the campus within the Ghanaian capital metropolis be upgraded by 1.2MW of capability, in an effort to fulfill the demand for native digital infrastructure and knowledge consumption that PAIX says is quickly outsripping the provision.
“The info centre, now one of many largest in Ghana, will assist web service suppliers (ISPs), cloud suppliers, and enterprises take full benefit of strong digital infrastructure and improved connectivity, to create on-line companies akin to e-commerce that can thrive within the digital period,” shares PAIX Information Centres in a press launch despatched to Hypertext.
PAIX is a pan-African knowledge centre agency, with places of work in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya and now in Ghana. The corporate says that demand for dependable and scalable knowledge centres in Africa is predicted to exceed the present provide by 300 % over the following two years.
“The present put in capability of 250 MW will must be considerably elevated to 1 200 MW by 2030 to fulfill the quickly rising demand for knowledge, with consumption anticipated to rise by 40% annually till 2025, in accordance with business estimates,” PAIX explains.
The upgraded facility, pictured within the cowl picture above, boasts trendy infrastructure and strong safety measures. The info middle additionally options superior cooling and waste administration techniques, PAIX provides, and the elevated integration of renewable power as an influence supply, to enhance environmental impression.
PAIX selected Accra, Ghana for its proximity to regional and worldwide community routes and subsea cables, permitting the corporate to supply decrease latency companies.
“PAIX’s funding in our ACC-1 knowledge centre positions it because the main community hub that’s created by the aggregation of a number of undersea cable touchdown factors connecting to terrestrial cables, and this makes Accra a extremely engaging gateway to West Africa,” enthused Wouter van Hulten PAIX Information Centres CEO.
“We’re working intently with our connectivity, CDN, social media, and cloud prospects in search of to serve this rising market. We’re growing thriving magnetic cloud and content material hubs in Accra.”
The corporate first established the information centre campus in 2018 in Accra – its first knowledge centre. Quickly after it constructed its second facility in Kenya in 2020.
It says additional areas are underneath improvement.
