Teraco has kicked off construction on a new data centre in River Fields Bredell, 20km north of the current Isando campus, according to the company.
Earlier this year, Teraco announced plans to extend its existing co-location data centre facility in Isando, Johannesburg by adding 9 000sqm of white space and 18 500sqm of utility space.
Teraco said the objective in extending the local facility is to meet the demand from businesses that are opting to outsource their requirements as opposed to building their own data centre.
In a statement, Teraco says it is finalising the expansion of the Isando campus to 20 megawatts, while it commences with the construction of the new 24 megawatt Bredell build.
Teraco CEO, Lex van Wyk, says the Bredell site will bring Teraco's total power supply to 50 megawatts by the end of 2017. "Teraco will be comparable to global data centres and by a large margin, Africa's biggest data centre provider."
Van Wyk says the current 20-megawatt site will be completed in December 2016 and the target for the new site's completion is September 2017.
"The new data centre facility will be situated in Bredell, we are excited to be part of the development of the area and to be able to meet the demands of our local and global clients."
As part of the expansion to Bredell, Teraco will also be extending NAPAfrica, Africa's largest Internet Exchange Point.
"We want to ensure that all our clients are able to benefit from the peering exchange and all the technology within existing Teraco data centres," says Van Wyk.
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