{"id":445390,"date":"2020-11-03T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=445390"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T07:04:17","slug":"teraco-begins-work-on-africas-largest-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/445390\/teraco-begins-work-on-africas-largest-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Teraco begins work on Africa’s largest data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teraco says it has begun construction on a new hyperscale data centre with 38MW of critical power load in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.<\/p>\n

The facility is called JB4 and will be the largest data centre in Africa once it is built.<\/p>\n

Phase one of the JB4 data centre is scheduled to be completed in Q1 2022 and the entire data centre will require a total investment of $250 million (R4 billion) to complete, Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

The timeline for the construction of the second phase will be informed by Teraco\u2019s operations and demand for cloud and hosting services.<\/p>\n

Hnizdo said that Teraco is poised for major growth as demand for cloud services continues to climb.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is strategically located at the tip of the African continent and as a result, is positioned as a technology and data centre hub for sub-Saharan Africa,\u201d Hnizdo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is further underpinned by growing undersea and terrestrial fibre connectivity to the rest of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continued increase of cloud adoption in Africa is also being enabled by investments in critical infrastructure, including hyperscale data centre facilities such as JB4.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Teraco continues to invest heavily in ICT infrastructure in South Africa, enabling global cloud giants to service the sub-Saharan African region.<\/p>\n

Teraco JB4 data centre details<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teraco\u2019s JB4 data centre is the seventh data centre developed by the company and takes critical power load capacity at the company\u2019s facilities up to over 110MW.<\/p>\n

This includes the Isando Campus JB1\/JB3 (39MW), Bredell JB2 (13MW), Rondebosch Cape Town CT1 (3MW), Brackenfell Cape Town CT2 (18MW) and Durban (1MW).<\/p>\n

The JB4 data centre will comprise a whopping 50,000m2<\/sup> of building structure serviced by 80MW of utility power supply, and it will boast 16,000m2<\/sup> of hall space with 38MW of critical power load when completed.<\/p>\n

It will be built in two phases across six hectares of land, with phase 1 delivering half of the overall hall space and critical power load.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new data centre development is being built in line with global hyperscale requirements as well as international compliance standards and will augment the existing portfolio of ISO9001, ISO27001, PCI-DSS and ISAE3402 certified data centre facilities,\u201d Teraco said.<\/p>\n

Images of what the new data centre development will look like after it is completed are shown below.<\/p>\n

Teraco JB4 Data Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: Teraco is building a massive data centre in Cape Town: pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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