B7 LOCATED IN THE HEART OF EKURHULENI ’ S AEROTROPOLIS , IS TERACO ’ S NINTH DATA CENTRE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANDS ITS ISANDO CAMPUS .
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Teraco commences construction on JB7 , 40MW hyperscale data centre in East Johannesburg
Teraco , a Digital Realty company and provider of interconnection platforms and vendor-neutral colocation data centres , announced that construction has commenced on a new hyperscale data centre with 40 megawatts , MW of critical power load at its Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni , East of Johannesburg . The data centre , funded by a new R8 billion syndicated loan , will further solidify Teraco ’ s presence as a provider of data centre services in Africa .
The facility , known as JB7 , is currently scheduled for completion in 2026 and will incorporate the latest environmentally sustainable cooling and water management designs . The new data centre supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud service providers for data centre capacity .
JB7 will offer highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco ’ s longterm vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa . The expansion will increase the Isando Campus ’ capacity up to 110MW of critical power load .
B7 LOCATED IN THE HEART OF EKURHULENI ’ S AEROTROPOLIS , IS TERACO ’ S NINTH DATA CENTRE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANDS ITS ISANDO CAMPUS .
“ We continue to receive strong support from the lending community . The new syndication was well oversubscribed , which is an expression of confidence by our local institutional financing partners in our data centre platform , growth path and ESG initiatives ,” says Samuel Erwin , Chief Financial Officer at Teraco .
“ We have a unique opportunity in South Africa to integrate renewable energy generation into the provision of data centre infrastructure to serve the needs of our clients and support continued , sustainable digital advancement in our region ,” Erwin adds .
Jan Hnizdo , CEO at Teraco , says enterprise and hyperscale deployments continue apace due to growing hybrid cloud deployments and the adoption of cloud services in Africa .
Massive global investments into undersea cables , like Equiano and 2Africa , further strengthen this position . This will enable global cloud providers to service not only the South African market but also the rest of the sub-Saharan African region .
The JB7 facility , located in the heart of Ekurhuleni ’ s Aerotropolis , is Teraco ’ s ninth data centre development and further expands its Isando Campus . It is here that Teraco ’ s data centres provide enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco , a rich ecosystem of over 250 network providers , content delivery networks , global cloud onramps , subsea cable systems , access to over 100 managed service providers , and direct peering at regional IXP ’ s including NAPAfrica , Africa ’ s largest Internet exchange point .
JB7 has been designed to put sustainability first and minimise its environmental footprint . It will incorporate the latest state-of-the-art cooling designs with a closed-loop chilled
Samuel Erwin , Chief Financial Officer , Teraco
water system and direct free-air cooling into the data halls . This design will bring about industry-PUEs and WUEs , reducing the energy consumed and limiting water used in the ongoing cooling process to zero .
The systems are specifically designed to provide liquid-to-air and liquid-to-liquid cooling to facilitate the deployment of high-density cloud and Artificial Intelligence deployments .
JB7 is the latest expansion for Teraco ’ s growing data centre platform . It increases critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to 228MW , which includes the Isando Campus JB1 , JB3 , JB5 , JB7 , 110MW , Bredell Campus JB2 , JB4 , 63MW , Cape Town Campus CT1 , CT2 , 53MW , and Durban , 2MW . p
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