15 days ago
The East African
By VINCENT OWINO More by this AuthorThe United States international investment agency has injected $30 million into Africa Data Centres (ADC) to expand its storage facilities in Nairobi that provide digital data storage services to businesses across the east, central and southern Africa region. With this additional investment, the company, which operates the region’s largest data centre, kicked off the construction of an additional facility that will more than triple its current capacity to 15 megawatts (MW), a project expected to end by mid-next year. “Eventually we will be able to expand to 20 or 25MW capacity if we witness a continued growth in demand. The centres lease storage space for backup and safekeeping of data to firms. Investments like the US’s [are] helping to bridge that gap.”Leading Africa tech hubMs Whitman reaffirmed her country’s commitment “to seeing Kenya succeed in its tech transformation.
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