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VANTAGE DATA CENTERS’ US$1 BILLION
JOHANNESBURG CAMPUS Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, recently announced that it has begun construction of its first African campus in Johannesburg, leveraging a US$1 billion investment from existing financial partners. The 80MW campus will be in Johannesburg’s Waterfall City, a thriving business and data centre ecosystem in the heart of the continent’s largest data centre market. This marks Vantage’s entry into its fifth continent. From its initial American roots, Vantage previously expanded to two Canadian markets in early 2019, six European markets in 2020 and five markets in Asia Pacific in 2021.
Sureel Choksi, president and CEO of the organisation. “With our global expansion over the past twoand-a-half years, we’ve become one of the fastest-growing hyperscale data centre providers in the world.” The carrier-neutral Johannesburg campus will consist of three facilities across 12ha with
60 000m² of data centre space once fully developed. The first phase of the campus, slated for completion in 2022, will include a 16MW building. “Johannesburg is the data centre hub for sub-Saharan Africa due to its strategic location, IT ecosystem, fibre connectivity to the rest
“Vantage has seen strong demand from our customers for high-quality, hyperscale data centre facilities across the globe and we’re excited to meet this demand by expanding to Africa’s largest market,” says
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