What new 4.5MW data centre means for Kenya’s digital acceleration

iXAfrica Data Center CEO Snehar Shah gestures during the interview at the company’s offices located along Mombasa Road on September 27, 2023.

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Last week, hyperscale data centre implementer iXAfrica unveiled the first phase of what it terms a ‘state-of-the-art’ facility within Kenya’s capital, and with it pronounced a promise for enhanced capacity in data storage services as well as up scaled safety.

Dubbed NBOX1, the 4.5 megawatt (MW)-capacity data centre launched on Wednesday last week is part of a larger 22.5MW data centre campus along Mombasa Road, touted to be the largest project of its kind in the greater East African region with the capacity to serve a population of up to 300 million users.

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