Paves the way for cloud infrastructure and next-gen AI deployments in Africa
Cape Town, South Africa – 10 November 2025 – Teraco: A Digital Realty Company and provider of interconnection platforms and vendor-neutral colocation data centres, today announced the successful completion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre expansion in Cape Town, bringing the facility’s total critical IT load to 50 megawatts (MW).
This milestone marks a transformational step in South Africa’s digital infrastructure landscape and cements Teraco’s Cape Town campus as a premier hub for cloud, AI, and enterprise workloads. The expanded CT2 facility adds 32MW of new capacity delivered across eight new data halls and built over three levels.
“CT2’s expansion underscores our continued commitment to meeting the demand for large, hyperscale infrastructure in Africa,” says Jan Hnizdo, Teraco CEO. “This facility expands Platform Teraco by providing clients with the ability to scale on demand, proven resilience, an extensive interconnected ecosystem, and a broad array of low latency connectivity options.”
Enabling hyperscale and AI ambitions in Africa
Teraco’s CT2 infrastructure meets high density computing deployment needs and is designed to support liquid-to-liquid cooling. For clients deploying AI training clusters, inference nodes, or data lakes in Africa, CT2 offers connected and scalable infrastructure.
Platform Teraco’s ecosystem provides direct low-latency connectivity to cloud provider on-ramps, seamless peering via the NAPAfrica internet exchange point (IXP), and access to multiple carrier and content providers.
Teraco’s CT2 data centre is linked by diverse fibre routes to the CT1 facility and supports over 7,000 interconnects across the Cape Town Campus. The campus is connected to all the subsea cable systems that land in the Cape region, including ACE, Equiano, SAT-3, SAFE, WACS and 2Africa, amplifying the value of CT2 as a digital gateway for continental and global traffic.
Economic and sustainability impact
The expansion has created hundreds of local skilled construction jobs, facilitating economic growth and upliftment in the region. On an ongoing basis, this expansion will employ around 30 additional full-time employees.
In Cape Town, water scarcity has real meaning. The city faced a “Day Zero” water crisis in 2018 when it came close to running out of water, resulting in severe water restrictions being implemented. The CT2 data centre facility has been designed with sustainability at its core, incorporating a state-of-the-art zero water closed-loop cooling system. The system incorporates free air cooling, coupled with AI-enhanced technology to configure data hall cooling in real time, based on IT load and heat dispersion. This innovative design achieves industry-leading power usage effectiveness (PUE), significantly reducing energy consumption and, most importantly, using zero water during the cooling process.
Beyond optimising energy efficiency, Teraco is advancing a bold renewable energy strategy by developing its own 120MW solar PV plant to supply clean energy to its data centres, including CT2, through energy wheeling. This initiative marks a significant step toward sustainability, as Teraco will own the renewable energy plants that power its data centres reflecting Teraco’s long-term vision: powering digital innovation across Africa sustainably. This holistic approach is designed to support the next generation of cloud and AI computing, while reducing the environmental impact.
Looking forward
Teraco’s CT2 strengthens Africa’s position in the global technology landscape by delivering capacity and connectivity on the continent, providing global and local cloud providers and enterprises with access to world-class data centre infrastructure closer to users, data, and regional markets.
CT2 is the latest expansion to Teraco’s growing data centre platform, increasing critical power load capacity at Teraco facilities to 189MW. This includes the Isando Campus (JB1/JB3/JB5: 70MW), Bredell Campus (JB2/JB4: 64MW), Cape Town Campus (CT1/CT2: 53MW), and Durban (DB1: 2MW).
Key facts CT2
- CT2 comprises 73,000 square metres of building structure serviced by 90MW of utility power.
- CT2 is strategically located as part of the Cape Town Campus and fibre-connected to CT1 with over 7,000 interconnects.
- The expansion adds eight data halls, taking the total facility to 16 halls with 18,000 square metres of deployment space.
- Four halls are designed to provide 5MW of critical IT load each.
- The CT2 expansion significantly adds to South Africa’s and sub-Saharan Africa’s data centre infrastructure.
- The data centre expansion was built in line with global hyperscale requirements.
- It augments the existing portfolio of ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 50001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, PCI-DSS, and ISAE 3402-certified data centre facilities.
- CT2 features environmentally conscious designs and monitoring, including a zero water closed-loop cooling system and specialised monitoring technology to improve energy efficiency.
About Teraco
Teraco, a leading carrier-neutral colocation provider in Africa, is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa. With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems, Teraco forms a vital part of the African internet’s backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Teraco is majority-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering clients a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents – and a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira. For more information, please visit teraco.co.za or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation, from cloud and digital transformation to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
