Teraco has announced the completion of phase one of its CT2 hyperscale data centre campus in Cape Town. The newly competed infrastructure, located in Brackenfell in Cape Town, is said to be the largest data centre in the Western Cape.

The facility will also form part of the company‘s vision as far as enabling digital transformation, says Teraco.

“Cape Town, as one of Africa’s most digitally connected cities, is a logical destination for Teraco’s continued investment into data centre infrastructure on the continent,” the company explained in a press release sent to Hypertext.

“Home to thriving digitally connected enterprises including telecommunications, financial services, e-commerce, logistics, and retail; Cape Town benefits from its enviable location at the southern tip of Africa, and the landing of many major subsea cable systems such as ACE, WACS, SAT-3 and SAFE. The abundance of subsea cable connectivity is set to continue with Google’s Equiano and the 2AFRICA cable system developments,” it adds.

Unpacking some of the key physical elements of the campus, Teraco notes that it the first phase of CT2 comprises 2 5000sqm of building structure, 8 000sqm of data hall space, and 18MW of critical power load. The company has also secured adjacent land and power for future expansion and brings the total critical power load to 36MW at end state.

“As part of Teraco’s broader Cape Town campus, both the CT1 and CT2 data centres  provide enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco; a rich ecosystem of over 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, access to over 50 managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest Internet exchange point,” it notes regarding the potential of the finished campus.

“Clients deployed in either of these facilities can connect to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute directly or via Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange,” Teraco concludes.