Teraco has successfully completed its CT2 hyperscale data centre expansion in Cape Town, bringing the facility’s total critical IT load to 50 megawatts (MW).
The expanded CT2 facility adds 32MW of new capacity delivered across eight new data halls and built over three levels, bringing the campus’ total supported IT load to 50MW.
“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.”
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.
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 incorporates a zero water closed-loop cooling system. The system includes free air cooling, coupled with AI-enhanced technology to configure data hall cooling in real time, based on IT load and heat dispersion.
Teraco is also developing its own 120MW solar PV plant to supply clean energy to its data centres, including CT2, through energy wheeling. Through this approach, Teraco will own the renewable energy plants that power its data centres.