Teraco on Wednesday (6 May) announced\u00a0 that it will build a new 30MW data centre facility in Cape Town – Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2).<\/p>\n
This follows the company\u2019s recent 60MW expansion announcement of its Johannesburg data centre campus in Isando and makes the Cape Town facility the second-largest on the continent.<\/p>\n
Jan Hnizdo, chief executive officer at Teraco, said that the growth of cloud in the region has resulted in increased demand from cloud providers, enterprises and sub-sea cable operators seeking to locate their data centre infrastructure at the intersection of the Internet.<\/p>\n
Construction on the site commenced in early March 2020 and will continue in line with local Covid-19 restrictions with a targeted completion date of Q3 2021.<\/p>\n
The completed facility will comprise of eight data halls encompassing 8,000sqm of usable floor space, doubling the existing data centre capacity in the Cape Town region.<\/p>\n
Teraco launched its first data centre facility located in Rondebosch Cape Town, CT1, eleven years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new investment in the Mother City is special for us. To date, CT1 has seen four expansions since launching; the historic building currently has sufficient capacity until the new site is brought to market,” said Hnizdo.<\/p>\n
Hnizdo said that with the recent announcements of direct interconnection availability to the major cloud onramps such as Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and AWS Direct Connect, Teraco has seen a growing uptake driven by the enterprise market.<\/p>\n