Nabilah Safira
TechInAfrica – Systems Integrator Dimension Data has announced its plan to invest in South Africa’s data center market.
Its parent company NTT will also join the expansion.
“According to the African Data Centres Association, Africa needs 1 000MW and 700 data centre facilities to meet the growing demand and bring the rest of the continent onto level terms with the capacity and density of SA. People around the world see Africa as the next economic frontier and that means in the digital economy, we need data centres to support the digital assets and that economic growth,” ,” said Kyle Stanton, go to market executive: intelligent infrastructure at Dimension Data in an interview with ITweb.
“This first step [the Johannesburg 1 Data Centre] that we’ve taken is a significant step because it shows our intent to continue to invest in SA and in Africa, and in the data centre domain specifically.”
Source: Itweb.co.za
