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South African broadcast infrastructure firm Sentech plans data center business
State-owned company planning to offer colo and cloud services across the country
company will be upgrading its existing footprint and then expanding across the country. company aims to consolidate the excess capacity of publicly-funded data centers, and deliver processing, data facilities, and cloud computing capacity.
The first phase of this plan will see Sentech upgrade its existing Nasrec-based Tier II-quality data center into a Tier III quality facility. The upgrade is set to be completed for relaunch by the end of the year. The aim and purpose of the Sentech data centers is to provide services such as colocation, hosting, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and cloud services to business-to-business customers and government.
There is plenty of demand and capacity for additional data center and cloud services, and this growth trend is expected to continue beyond 2026. Sentech needs to position itself to provide reliable 24/7 data center infrastructure that has back-up power to meet an ever-growing market.
