Author: Gary Peel

On 29 July 2026, a tribunal in Cape Town cleared Equinix to press ahead with two new data centres in the city’s King Air Industria precinct. Once complete, the facilities are expected to draw close to 170MW of power – not far off the roughly 189MW that Teraco, Africa’s largest data centre operator, currently draws across every campus it runs in South Africa combined. That is one project, in one part of one city. South Africa now hosts more than 50 operating data centres, with close to R50 billion committed to new capacity over the next three years, most of…