Ghana joins Nigeria and Togo as the largest West African operator, with a capacity of up to 30 MW.
Africa Data Centres, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies Group, a pan-African technology conglomerate, has announced the construction of a 30MW data center in Accra, Ghana.
With facilities in Nigeria, Togo, and now Ghana, the new facility will pave the way for the company’s hyper-scale partners to expand digital services and solutions to more nations in West Africa, making Africa Data Centres the largest provider in the region.
The Accra operation, according to Tesh Durvasula, Africa Data Centres’ Chief Executive Officer, is a key milestone for the company and illustrates the huge growth opportunities the company has for its business in the region and on the continent. “We’re seeing tremendous demand for digital services, apps, broadband, cloud technologies, and more,” Durvasula added.
The Accra plant, which has a capacity of 30 megawatts, will play a key role in enabling hyper-scale companies to adopt digital solutions throughout West Africa. “This new facility will be a huge step forward in our long-term goals to bridge Africa’s digital divide by making digital services available to more businesses and people.”
“We chose Accra as our next location because there is a huge demand for digitally transforming West Africa from hyper-scalers, cloud operators, and multi-national organizations,” Durvasula says.
The data center will not only bring digital services to the area, but it will also create numerous job possibilities through the digitisation of the economy and the hiring of local contractors and workers for the construction, from entry-level to high-tech.
“Many interesting inventions have their roots in Africa, and countless startups are funding billions to debut innovative concepts across a wide range of sectors,” Durvasula said. Ghana is also an appealing investment destination for multinational tech firms looking to grow their footprint in the area, as it is West Africa’s second-largest economy.”
Continuous connectivity is essential for Ghanaian enterprises and residents to benefit from the digital disruptions that are sweeping West Africa. However, due to a lack of required infrastructure, the country’s progress has been slower than the rest of the world.
Opening a data center is in line with our expansion ambitions and comes at a good time, as Ghana’s government has been implementing creative and forward-thinking digital projects in recent years. Even though there has been substantial progress in recent years, many Ghanaians still lack access to digital services.
We are always trying to provide the infrastructure to lessen the digital divide as the continent’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data center facilities. We want to play a big role in providing Ghana the necessary digital and infrastructural services required to facilitate the mass adoption of digital services in the country and throughout the continent as a Cassava Technologies enterprise.
Durvasula concludes, “Africa has never seen plans like this before.” “In an unprecedented $500 million investment in Africa’s digital revolution, the Africa Data Centres team seeks to establish numerous interconnected, cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers across the continent.”