In the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, Raxio Group has started construction on the world’s first carrier-neutral data centre at the Tier III level (DRC).
At an event to break ground on the new facility, the pan-African data centre developer and operator is said to have presented its site designs and vision at the event, according to a statement. The data centre will be a building with 400 racks and a capacity of 1.5 MW when it is finally operational in 2023.
“It is really exciting to begin construction on the newest facility that will be incorporated into the Raxio network.” “Access to data centre infrastructure is more critical than it has ever been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), due to the significant progress being made in connectivity and digital transformation,” Robert Mullins, president of the Raxio Group, was quoted as saying.
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Mullins said that the first carrier-neutral data centre in the DRC will be a Tier III facility, which will fill a very important need in the country’s digital infrastructure.
The industry is booming
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just opened a new data centre while similar facilities are being built all over Africa at a faster rate. The data centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is part of the Raxio Group’s larger portfolio of African facilities, including Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, the Ivory Coast, and Tanzania.
In addition, Africa Data Centres has formed a partnership with the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), a move that will result in improved connectivity throughout Nigeria and reduced bandwidth usage prices on average.
The company is moving forward with a significant increase in the number of carrier and cloud-neutral data centres it operates across Africa. As a result, data centres have recently been constructed in South Africa and Ghana, and there are proposals to construct them in 10 of Africa’s most critical economic capitals.
About RAXIO:
Raxio Group was started in 2018. It is a portfolio company of Meridiam, a global developer, asset manager, and fund manager focusing on sustainable infrastructure and energy transition projects, and Roha Group Inc., an investment firm based in the US that invests in and builds successful greenfield businesses in Africa in an ethical way. Raxio is the leading provider of carrier-neutral, colocation, Tier III data centres in Africa. It has facilities and services for businesses that are up to industry standards and are the backbone of the digital economies on the African continent. In February, Raxio opened its first facility in Uganda. It was started in 2006, and since then, it has grown to include locations in Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mozambique. By 2023, the company wants to have a network of data centres all over Africa that are linked together.