Drivers of the African Data Centre market 2015
As far as data centres are concerned Africa is a blank slate. London alone has more than 2 times the number of DC’s than the whole of Africa. The majority of DC’s in Africa are enterprise/Telco/Banking/Govt in-house. Very few are carrier neutral. There are also no Cloud DC’s to speak of. With the advent of massive capacity brought about by the deployment of multiple submarine cables Africa can now connect seamlessly to the rest of the World at seemingly unlimited bandwidths. This increase in capacity of connectivity brings with it the benefit of lower costs which underpins a virtuous cycle of increased usage, higher demand, lower prices and so on. As the international investment community starts to wake up to the opportunities brought about by fast growing (albeit off a low base) economies, rapid urbanisation, a young growing population, there will be a steady increase in FDI in infrastructure, agriculture as well as investment into services and...