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Home > Data Center > Vantage opens a new data center campus in Johannesburg

Vantage opens a new data center campus in Johannesburg

Vantage Data Centers continues its worldwide expansion. This time, the company announced the opening of a new data center campus in Johannesburg.


Hanife Diktas Hanife Diktas
July 28, 2022
2 min read
Vantage opens a new data center campus in Johannesburg
  • Vantage Data Centers opens a new data center in Johannesburg with an investment of more than $1 billion.
  • The company targets to expand its fiber connectivity to the rest of Africa and aligns with its green energy goal by offering renewable energy options, and limiting carbon emissions on the data center campus.
  • Vantage Data Centers has started construction on a second data center Frankfurt II campus in Germany, situated on seven acres in Raunheim with 6MW, 130,000 square feet.     

Hyperscale data center campuses provider, Vantage Data Centers has added another hyper-scale data center into its portfolio. The new campus is located in Johannesburg. With this data center, the company targets to expand its fiber connectivity to the rest of Africa.

1 billion dollars data center investment

Vantage Data Centers invested more than $1 billion into the new 30-acre (12 hectares) campus. Once fully completed, the campus will include 80 MW of IT capacity and more than 650,000 square feet (60,000 square meters) across three data centers. It is situated in Waterfall City, Johannesburg. The company aims at a thriving data center ecosystem as well as to increase its fiber connectivity to the rest of the continent through this new data center. Following the company’s sustainability commitment, the campus aligns with green energy, offering renewable energy options, and limiting carbon emissions as well. To support the production of 87 MWp from the local grid, Vantage entered a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarAfrica. Chief operating officer, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers said;

« Our rapid turnaround on the construction of our first Johannesburg facility has allowed us to more quickly meet the demand for hyper scale data centers in the area. At Vantage, we pride ourselves on not only our speed to market but also our commitment to become part of the local community and cement our reputation as a reliable data center partner in the region. This project created hundreds of jobs that will continue into the next phase of construction, and we thank our teams for their dedication and commitment to deliver such a high-quality product for our customers.»

Vantage Data Centers also announced the start of construction on a second data center, Frankfurt II campus. The 16 MW facility is situated on seven acres in Raunheim, 12,000 square meters. The company plans to add 56 MW of IT capacity across two Frankfurt data centers, once its Frankfurt II campus is finished. The new data center is Vantage’s ninth campus in the EMEA region. Six of those are operational, Berlin I, Cardiff, Frankfurt I, Johannesburg, Warsaw, and Zurich. 

In addition, Vantage Data Centers is already in process of developing its first 55 MW Frankfurt campus, located in Offenbach. It is approximately 30 kilometers from Raunheim. Once fully completed, both campuses will provide customers with a total of 111 MW of IT capacity in the Frankfurt region alone.

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Hanife Diktas

Hanife Diktas

Hanife Diktas is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Hanife started her career in the manufacturing sector in the marketing and sales department. Hanife worked in industrial equipment, renewable energy, and technology sectors. Hanife Diktas did her bachelor's degree in business administration and completed a master's degree in management at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. Hanife is a Linux user, and she also contributed to AlmaLinux OS at the beginning of the project. Hanife focuses on web hosting, cloud computing, data centers, cybersecurity, Linux OS, and virtualization technologies. Hanife enjoys creating content and shooting videos covering these topics.

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