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Home > Data Center > Teraco breaks ground on Africa’s largest data center

Teraco breaks ground on Africa’s largest data center

Teraco announced that construction has started on a new hyper-scale data center with 38 MW of critical power load.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
November 5, 2020
1 min read
Teraco breaks ground on Africa's largest data center

Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data center provider, Teraco Data Environments has started the construction on a new hyper-scale data center with 38 MW of critical power load in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The new facility is known as JB4 and it is expected to be completed in 2022’s first quarter. When fully built, it will be the largest data center in Africa as a stand-alone building.

Biggest in Africa as a stand-alone building

Jan Hnizdo, CEO, Teraco
Jan Hnizdo, CEO, Teraco

The new facility is the company’s 7th data center development and is located in the heart of the Ekurhuleni Aerotropolis. The location provides access to a wide choice of network service providers, peering at NAPAfrica, regional IXP’s, content delivery networks, and cloud provider on-ramps. JB4 takes critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to over 110MW. JB4 will be built in two phases set across 6 hectares of land and the first phase includes 8x 1000sqm halls with 19MW of critical power load. Jan Hnizdo, CEO, Teraco, said,

“South Africa is strategically located at the tip of the African continent and as a result, is positioned as a technology and data center hub for sub-Saharan Africa. This is further underpinned by growing undersea and terrestrial fiber connectivity to the rest of Africa. The continued increase of cloud adoption in Africa is also being enabled by investments in critical infrastructure, including hyper-scale data center facilities such as JB4. This will enable global cloud clients to service not only the South African market but reach the rest of the sub-Saharan African region as well.”

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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