African commercial hosting capacity expected to triple over next five years to support explosive data traffic flows and adoption of cloud services. DataCentres CloudComputing
The African market has become one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for commercial data centre deployments, a new report reveals.
Xalam says the African market is now in the midst of a seminal phase of construction activity, with around 70 new facilities built over the past five years, with 2022 the biggest year of construction to date.“For much of the past decade, data centres were the weak link of Africa’s digital infrastructure buildout − a market segment too small and too insular to be meaningful. No longer,” says Xalam.
Guy Zibi, MD of Xalam Analytics, adds: “This research puts some substance into what we have been witnessing. The African data centre market is entering the high-growth phase of its evolution cycle, a phase reflected by massive expansion as hyperscale cloud markets densify, and demand in some larger economies starts to live up to presumptive potential.”
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