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the moment , but you can ' t serve the rest of the region - it ' s too far in terms of latency . That ' s why Johannesburg and Cape Town have seen big digital infrastructure investment .”
Some hyperscalers have already opened up cloud regions in Africa over the past few years , using providers like Teraco and Africa Data Centres . Others have decided to selfbuild their own campuses , like Microsoft ’ s hyperscale campus in Cape Town which opened in 2019 .
Vantage , Boniface explains , chose to
“ WE STILL HAVE A FEW MORE YEARS OF CALM BEFORE THE STORM IN [ LAGOS AND NAIROBI ] - EXCEPT SOUTH AFRICA WHERE THINGS ARE REALLY BOOMING ”
ANTOINE BONIFACE EMEA PRESIDENT , VANTAGE DATA CENTERS enter South Africa in October of 2021 because the company “ selects its locations by following its customers . Some of our key customers that we serve in Europe and North America were looking to expand into South Africa , which is why we decided to enter the region with our first facility in Johannesburg .” The first 16 MW of the 80 MW development is slated to come online in July of this year , just a year and a half after initial internal approvals . “ We got the desire to do this project in January of 2021 , went to the board in March , got
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