| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.06.2026 | Digital Realty Announces Transactions to Drive Continued Platform Growth | , the world’s largest cloud- and carrier-neutral data center platform, announced a series of transactions that together bolster the company’s three core pillars of growth: (i) expansion of its hyperscale data center development capacity thr... |
| 17.06.2026 | The web belongs to the machines now | Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic online – and South African operators warn that automated traffic, from relentless scrapers to targeted attacks, is straining what local infrastructure can absorb, while a subtler threat from AI hollow... |
| 15.05.2026 | Malatsi pitches Reit overhaul to channel capital into digital infrastructure | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has backed a proposal to extend South Africa’s real estate investment trust (Reit) regime to digital infrastructure – a reform the sector has long argu... |
| 08.05.2026 | Why South Africa is Zoho’s third-fastest-growing market | Zoho’s Andrew Bourne
South Africa now sits as the third-fastest-growing market in Zoho’s top 15, according to Andrew Bourne, the Indian business software company’s regional head for Southern Africa.
This, he said in an interview with TechCe... |
| 08.04.2026 | Business services platform SILA raises $100M from Permira | Real-estate focused business services platform SILA has raised $100 million from global private equity firm Permira.
The investment will support SILA’s expansion across India as it strengthens its technology capabilities, expands adjacent s... |
| 01.04.2026 | US-listed data centre operator Equinix doubles down on South Africa | Equinix South Africa MD Sandile Dube
Global data centre operator Equinix is planning to build 160MW of additional data centre capacity in South Africa as part of a R7.5-billion investment push, having acquired land in Johannesburg and Cape ... |
| 26.02.2026 | Hold the doom: the case for a South African comeback | Finance minister Enoch Godongwana doesn’t appear to be a politician given to hyperbole. So, when he stood in parliament on Wednesday and called his 2026 national budget a “turning point” in the management of South Africa’s public finances, ... |
| 26.02.2026 | Data centre ‘critical infrastructure’ tag welcomed, but detail still thin | South Africa’s data centre industry has cautiously welcomed the government’s move to designate data centres as critical infrastructure, though key details – including what incentives will be offered and how the policy will be implemented – ... |
| 25.02.2026 | South Africa puts data centres on par with energy, ports in big policy shift | Teraco’s JB4 data centre in Gauteng
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has for the first time placed data centre infrastructure on the same footing as electricity, ports and transport networks, signalling a significant policy shift as South ... |
| 11.02.2026 | Zscaler assets seized from South African data centres | Server equipment belonging to US-headquartered cloud security company Zscaler was seized by sheriffs of the court from NTT Data and Teraco data centres in Johannesburg and Cape between September and November of 2024, TechCentral has learnt.... |
| 19.01.2026 | Teraco appoints new MD and CFO amid expansion drive | Newly appointed Teraco CFO Raj Nana
Teraco has expanded its executive management team following a period of rapid growth that saw the commissioning of three large data centre facilities in South Africa during 2025.
The Digital Realty-owned ... |
| 10.11.2025 | Teraco flips the switch on 50MW Cape Town data centre | Teraco CT2 in Cape Town
Teraco has completed a major expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre in Cape Town, boosting total capacity on the site to 50MW of critical IT load. The new phase adds 32MW of additional power across eight new dat... |
| 04.11.2025 | South Africa: Teraco and Seacom Cable Fault Brings About Digital Load Shedding for Some | Another internet outage in South Africa shows us that the internet, much like an ogre and onion analogy, has layers. And you'd better have redundancy.
It was a cable break, but not in the way you'd expect. Service provider notifications bro... |
| 30.10.2025 | South Africa’s AI data centre boom risks overloading a fragile grid | The author, Paul Colmer
Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence. And I mean everyone. The hype reminds me of the fanfare around 5G’s launch – all promise, waiting to see delivery. We built and enabled those towers everywhere, and n... |
| 28.10.2025 | TCS | Why Altron is building an AI factory in Johannesburg | Altron earlier this month announced that it has deployed an “AI factory” in one of Teraco’s new Johannesburg data centres. Powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure and software, the factory has already gone live with half a dozen customers.
In t... |
| 24.10.2025 | South Africa’s biggest data centres, ranked | Teraco’s recently completed JB5 data centre, photographed at dusk at the company’s Isando campus
South Africa’s data centre capacity has been growing steadily over the years as demand for cloud computing and storage services has expanded.
S... |
| 21.08.2025 | INX-ZA to supercharge its South African internet exchanges | South Africa’s oldest internet exchange point operator, INX-ZA, has announced a plan to upgrade its infrastructure using high-performance routers from Nokia that offer throughput of up to 400Gbit/s each.
INX-ZA, which forms part of the Inte... |
| 11.08.2025 | How competition policy can rein in Big Tech’s AI power | The author, the Competition Commission’s Donnavan Linley
As digital markets continue to expand and artificial intelligence evolves, governments and regulators need to remain agile when it comes to governance and public strategies in AI.
I r... |
| 11.08.2025 | Teraco says it’s completed JB4, a 50MW data centre | Teraco’s JB4 is a 50MW data centre facility located in Bredell in Ekurhuleni
South Africa’s largest data centre operator, Teraco, has completed its latest build project, JB4, a 50MW AI-ready facility at its Bredell campus east of Johannesbu... |
| 30.05.2025 | Digital fortress: We go inside JB5, Teraco’s giant new AI-ready data centre | Teraco’s JB5 is an imposing structure alongside the R24 highway east of Johannesburg – quite an achievement given its location alongside several other large buildings that make up the company’s sprawling and still-expanding Isando campus.
J... |
| 20.03.2025 | Can data be owned? A South African legal scholar weighs in | In the digital economy, data is more than just information – it is an asset with immense economic and strategic value. Yet, despite its significance, a fundamental legal question remains unresolved: can data be owned?
While privacy laws wor... |
| 10.03.2025 | Power Shifts and Digital Highways: South Africa's Energy and Internet Landscape | In South Africa, the landscape of energy and internet connectivity is shifting. Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility, recently suspended load shedding earlier than anticipated. This decision came after a significant recovery in genera... |
| 09.03.2025 | Load shedding suspended earlier than expected | Eskom suspended load shedding at 10am on Sunday after recovering more than 3GW of generating capacity and restoring its emergency reserves.
Eskom implemented the rolling blackouts at 2pm on Friday – the third time it has imposed load sheddi... |
| 04.03.2025 | NAPAfrica traffic tops 5Tbit/s mark | One of Teraco’s data centre facilities
NAPAfrica, the internet exchange point housed in Teraco’s data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, has reached a new milestone: 5Tbit/s in traffic across its platform.
Internet exchange poin... |
| 26.02.2025 | Teraco turns to the wind to power its data centres | South Africa’s largest data centre operator, Teraco, has signed a power purchase agreement with “energy aggregator” NOA to supply wind-powered renewable energy to its facilities.
The move follows the announcement last year that the company ... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Future of Data and AI: A Dual Revolution in South Africa and Silicon Valley | In the heart of Johannesburg, a monumental shift is underway. Teraco, a titan in the data center arena, is set to construct JB7, a sprawling facility designed to cater to the burgeoning demands of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Thi... |
| 14.11.2024 | OpenAI nears launch of Operator, an AI agent to automate user tasks | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed “Operator” that can use a computer to take actions on a person’s behalf, such as writing code or booking travel, according to two people famil... |
| 13.11.2024 | Bookmarks | What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever? | These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?: Recent reports indicate AI model improvements may be slowing as tr... |
| 13.11.2024 | Teraco to build JB7, a vast new data centre for AI workloads | Teraco, the South African data centre operator owned by Digital Realty, has raised an R8-billion syndicated loan and announced it will build a 40MW “hyperscale” data centre in Johannesburg.
The new data centre, with 40MW of “critical power”... |
| 12.11.2024 | Teraco starts work on giant Free State solar farm | One of Teraco’s data centre facilities
Teraco, South Africa’s largest data centre operator, has begun construction of a 120MW solar plant in the Free State that will help power its facilities around the country.
Teraco will “wheel” electric... |
| 11.11.2024 | NAPAfrica tops 4.5Tbit/s in peering traffic | A Teraco data centre in Brackenfell in Cape Town
South Africa’s largest internet exchange point (IXP), NAPAfrica, is now the seventh largest such facility globally, having topped 4.5Tbit/s in peering traffic.
NAPAfrica, which is owned and o... |
| 20.09.2024 | The New Frontier of Team Transformation: AceUp's $22.5 Million Leap | In the bustling world of corporate innovation, AceUp has emerged as a beacon of change. The company recently secured $22.5 million in Series A funding, a significant boost that promises to reshape how organizations harness talent. This fund... |
| 19.09.2024 | INX-ZA peering comes to NTT Data’s Joburg data centre | The Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) now has a peering point at NTT Data’s new data centre north of the city.
Through an agreement with exchange operator INX-ZA, NTT Data – previously Dimension Data – has taken the peering point live a... |
| 08.04.2024 | Africa Data Centres to wheel power from new Free State solar farm | Africa Data Centres chief financial officer Finhai Munzara
Africa Data Centres (ADC) has broken ground on a 12MW solar farming facility in the Free State.
Once completed, the facility will wheel power to the company’s data centres in Johann... |
| 25.03.2024 | Gauteng water crisis – the impact on data centres | Teraco’s largest data centre campus, located in Isando in Ekurhuleni
Gauteng has become the epicentre of massive new data centre builds in recent years, with the sprawling IT facilities serving customers not only in South Africa but across ... |
| 21.02.2024 | Teraco to build gigantic Free State solar farm | Teraco, South Africa’s largest data centre operator, has signed a capacity allocation deal with Eskom that will allow for the wheeling of 120MW of electricity from a solar farm to be constructed in the Free State, with the electricity that ... |
| 19.02.2024 | How data centres are battling South Africa’s energy crisis | South African data centre operators are increasingly turning to renewable energy solutions to diversify their energy sources as they battle to secure the power they need for their operations.
“The general impact of load shedding on data cen... |
| 15.11.2023 | Jinx to establish a presence in Equinix data centre | Internet exchange points help route data traffic efficiently and cost-effectively
South Africa’s oldest internet exchange, Jinx, will establish a presence in Johannesburg’s newest data centre being built by Nasdaq-listed Equinix.
Equinix an... |
| 31.01.2023 | Teraco to build utility-scale solar as it secures billions in new funding | A portion of Teraco’s sprawling data centre campus in Isando, east of Johannesburg
Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest data centre company, raised R11.8-billion in funds to assist with its expansion plans and power build-out, said ch... |
| 28.02.2022 | Teraco Announces Access To Oracle Cloud Via FastConnect | Jan Hnizdo Teraco CEO
Teraco Data Environments, a leading provider of colocation data centres and interconnection in Africa and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it will offer connectivity directly through Ora... |
| 28.02.2022 | Teraco Announces Access To Oracle Cloud Via FastConnect | Jan Hnizdo Teraco CEO |
| 10.01.2022 | Digital Realty adquire startup africana por US$ 3,5 bilhões | A Digital Realty, uma das maiores fornecedoras de soluções de data center, colocation e interconexão neutras em nuvem e operadoras, investidora da Ascenty, empresa de data centers da América Latina, adquiriu participação majoritária na Tera... |
| 07.05.2021 | Teraco Boosts Regional Interconnection With MÉTISS Cable | MÉTISS is a 3,200 km subsea fibre optic cable system connecting South Africa to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius. The MÉTISS consortium comprises Canal+ Télécom, CEB Fibernet, Emtel, Zeop and SRR (SFR) Telma. Th... |
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| 02.02.2021 | SA tech company secures R2.5-billion | Teraco Data Environments Proprietary Limited, heralded as Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider, has announced that it has finalised a new R2.5-billion loan financing transaction led by Absa and severa... |
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| 03.11.2020 | Teraco starts construction of the largest data centre built to date in Africa | The facility, known as JB4, is scheduled for completion in Q1 2022 and as a stand-alone building, will be the largest data centre in Africa.
CEO of Teraco, Jan Hnizdo, said that the company is poised for significant growth as hyperscale req... |
| 06.05.2020 | Teraco is building a second data centre facility in Cape Town | Artist rendition of the new Cape Town facility.
Teraco today formally confirmed the construction of Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), a new 30MW data centre facility. This follows the company’s recent 60MW expansion announcement of its Johannesburg... |
| 26.10.2017 | List of data centres across Africa | Share this article:
Like so many technological buzzwords, the term “data centres” is thrown around without much thought to what they are and what purpose(s) they serve.
Data Center Product Manager for MainOne, Vremudia Oghene-Ruemu clarifie... |
| 30.01.2015 | Teraco Secures a R400m Investment Facility from ‘Barclays Africa’ for Their New Data Centre | Teraco, provider of resilient vendor neutral data environments and Internet exchange point (IXP), has just increased the size of its medium term funding by securing R400m investment facility from Barclays Africa to construct a new data cent... |
| 29.07.2014 | Teraco Remains A Hub For Global Players Connecting To Over 55 Countries | Launched two years ago, the Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) from Teraco Data Centre Environments now provides access to 54 African countries via local and global carriers. ACX aims to provide a secure data centre environment for cloud providers... |
| 10.05.2012 | South Africa: Teraco Launches Cloud eXchange | Teraco Data Environments today launched the first data center environment in Africa. The product – Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX) will provide access to a vendor-neutral co-location space for sharing and selling cloud services. The cloud eXcha... |
| 03.06.2011 | Teraco Data Environments Completes R158m Series C Equity and Debt Financing | Teraco Data Environments, a South Africa-based provider of vendor neutral colocation data centres, completed a R158m Series C equity and debt financing.
Investors include World Bank Group member IFC, and current shareholders Treacle Private... |
| 02.06.2011 | Teraco completes Series-C round of funding | Illovo, Johannesburg: 2 June 2011 - Teraco Data Environments, South Africa’s only provider of vendor neutral colocation data centres, announces the completion of a R158 million ‘Series C’ financing.
The financing includes a combination of b... |
| 23.03.2010 | Telehouse extends South African data centre presence with Teraco Data Environments in Johannesburg | London, UK, March 23rd, 2010 - Telehouse and Teraco Data Environments today announced that their strategic alliance has been extended to include dedicated data centre space in Teraco’s new carrier neutral facility in Johannesburg. As with C... |
| 02.12.2009 | Telehouse enters South African colocation market with Teraco Data Environments | Telehouse and Teraco Data Environments Pty (‘Teraco’) today announced a key strategic alliance to meet the needs of customers seeking carrier neutral colocation and data centre space in South Africa. Demand for space is being driven by glob... |
| 14.07.2009 | Teraco closes Series-B financing round | Second vendor neutral colocation facility funded and well under way.
Cape Town, South Africa: 14 July 2009 - Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Limited (“Teraco”), the first provider of vendor neutral colocation facilities in South Africa, has ... |
| 02.06.2009 | Guy Willner joins Teraco board | Founder of Europe’s largest data centre operator throws his weight behind South Africa’s first vendor neutral data centre.
London, UK, 2 June 2009 – Teraco Data Environments today announces that Guy Willner, co-founder and CEO of IXEurope (... |
| 20.02.2009 | South Africa’s first vendor neutral data centre opens its doors in Cape Town | Cape Town, 19 February 2009 – Teraco opened South Africa’s first vendor neutral data centre in Cape Town this month. The South African telecommunications space was liberalized in November 2008, when local courts affirmed the right to self-p... |
| - | Teraco Data Environments | “Teraco, Africa's leading carrier-neutral colocation provider, is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in Africa.” |
| - | Teraco Data Environments | “Power your enterprise's digital infrastructure. Build and deploy your hybrid IT strategy in Africa's most trusted data centre platform.” |
| - | Berkshire Partners Announces New Advisory Director, James D. Young | BOSTON, March 4, 2021 – Berkshire Partners announced today that James D. Young will join the firm as an Advisory Director. Mr. Young, who was most recently a senior executive with Crown Castle International Corporation, will partner with th... |
| - | Comlinkdata Announces Recapitalization with Berkshire Partners | BOSTON, April 6, 2021 – Comlinkdata, a leading data and analytics provider to the global telecom industry, today announced that it has entered into a recapitalization transaction with Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based investment firm. Term... |
| - | Digital Realty adquire Teraco, avaliada em US$ 3,5 bilhões | A Digital Realty, fornecedora de soluções de data center, colocation e interconexão de nuvem e carrier neutral, anuncia a conclusão da compra da Teraco, provedora líder de serviços de interconexão e data center neutra para operadoras na Áfr... |
| - | Digital Realty adquire startup africana por US$ 3,5 bilhões | A Digital Realty, uma das maiores fornecedoras de soluções de data center, colocation e interconexão neutras em nuvem e operadoras, investidora da Ascenty, empresa de data centers da América Latina, adquiriu participação majoritária na Tera... |
