DATA CENTERS ARE HOME TO THE CLOUD AND, IN TERMS OF
ENTERPRISE IT, CRITICAL TO SUPPORTING BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Given that Africa lacks data centers, growing this capacity is key to enabling African banks to
benefit from the cloud — maximizing their ICT spend, improving business continuity and expediting
development cycles.
Despite rapid data center construction, the pandemic-boosted pace of digital transformation has
exposed critical gaps in Africa's digital infrastructure
More than 30 Tier III multi-tenant data facilities have come online in Africa since 2016. However, of the
continent's 80+ metropolitan areas with a population of more than 1 million people, only about 33 percent have at
least one such data center.
DATA CENTERS
01
NETWORK
INFRASTRUCTURE
02
CLOUD
PROVIDERS
03
REGULATIONS
04
DATA PRIVACY
05
In 2020, it was estimated that
only about 1.5% of the world's
data centers are located in Africa,
while the US, Europe, and Asia
respectively had 40%, 30%, and
10% of the total.
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1.5%
Africa
40%
US
30%
Europe
10%
Asia
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