South Africa’s Datacentre And AI Boom Needs To Be Treated Like Critical Infrastructure
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South Africa's datacentre and AI boom needs to be treated like critical infrastructure - SME Tech Guru
By Gary Peel, Cloud Business Development Manager, Southern Africa at Fortinet On 29 July 2026, a tribunal in Cape Town cleared Equinix to press ahead with two new data centres in the city’s King Air Industria precinct. Once complete, the facilities are expected to draw close to 170MW of power – not far off the roughly 189MW that Teraco, Africa’s largest data centre operator, currently draws across every campus it runs in South Africa combined. T…
South Africa’s Datacentre And AI Boom Needs To Be Treated Like Critical Infrastructure
On 29 July 2026, a tribunal in Cape Town cleared Equinix to press ahead with two new data centres in the city’s King Air Industria precinct. Once complete, the facilities are expected to draw close to 170MW of power – not far off the roughly 189MW that Teraco, Africa’s largest data centre operator, currently draws [...]
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