CPT1 Data Center (11.5MW) Expansion

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The project involves the expansion of the data center CPT1 in Cape Town, adding 6 MW of IT load to double its current capacity. The sponsor is Africa Data Centres company, a business of pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies. This expansion is driven by growing demand from national and international cloud and IT service providers looking to increase their presence in South Africa. Funded through a $300 million loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the project includes the construction of three new data halls on the existing campus. This will increase the facility's total power capacity from 5.5 MW to 11.5 MW, and provide an additional 1,000 racks of white space for customer leasing. The new infrastructure comprises two colocation halls and one hyperscale hall, significantly expanding the site’s physical footprint to accommodate future growth. The CPT1 facility is also using wheeled solar power, an innovation enabled through a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) signed in March 2023 with Distributed Power Africa, which is also part of Cassava Technologies. https://www.connectingafrica.com/data-centers/africa-data-centres-adding-6mw-capacity-in-cape-town ; https://www.africadatacentres.com/capetown/ ;