“ Madrid is seeing strong growth in tier 2 of the European data centre market thanks to the increase in subsea cables reaching the Iberian peninsula ,” he says . “ We foresee huge growth in Madrid and Barcelona over the coming years .”
Cap DC has also begun its expansion into Milan , he adds , and Microsoft announced recently that it will build data centres in Greece , while Cap DC delivered two colocation projects in Turkey in 2020 .
With the southern Europe data centre market set fair , he notes that Africa is a completely different market . The Madrid company has six offices in Africa from Morocco to Senegal to Ghana and Cameroon . In these markets , it ’ s all about potential . Apart from South Africa the tech giants ( GAFA ) have no foothold yet and very few pan-African colocators are active .
“ The market is still mostly driven by telcos like Orange , or by the public sector ,” says Antonio . “ For example , we are working for the national data centre agencies in Senegal and Guinea . The size of the data centre market in Africa is currently far smaller than in Europe , but we consider that with rapid population growth and the real innovation capability across the continent , it will equal the rate of development in Europe within five years .”
He is encouraged in this view by African leadership in mobile payment and its innovations in e-agriculture and e-health business .
155 datacentremagazine . com