On this episode of TechCentral’s enterprise expertise present TCS+, Africa Knowledge Centres regional govt for South Africa Angus Hay discusses the numerous upgrades going down on the firm’s Samrand facility in Gauteng.
Africa Knowledge Centres is within the midst of a serious improve cycle on the facility often known as JHB 2.
The colocation facility, which is likely one of the few tier-4 information centres in Africa, was initially designed to deal with 10MW of IT load. When the upgrades are accomplished in 2025, the ability will home a further 20MW.
On this informative dialogue, Hay delves into:
- The drivers behind the upgrades at Samrand and the way “hyperscalers” will profit from them;
- The safety requirements on the facility and the implications for extremely delicate shoppers such because the monetary sector;
- The vitality redundancies that guarantee steady operations on the facility, even within the occasion of grid collapse;
- Improvements Africa Knowledge Centres makes use of to handle the environment friendly use of vitality on the facility; and
- Initiatives to minimise Africa Knowledge Centres’ carbon footprint by investing in renewable vitality sources.
Don’t miss this full of life dialogue by which Hay gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the internal workings of state-of-the-art information centres, the powerhouses of the fashionable web.
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