# Africa Data Centres: robotics company

Canonical ID: `3178ce2d-14b5-47ad-90ea-77489b282755`

## Key facts

- **Parent:** Cassava Technologies
- **Facilities:** 9 across 6 countries
- **Capacity:** 30+ MW operational
- **Markets:** South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and 3 others
- **Funding:** [$300M DFC loan + NVIDIA AI Factory partnership ($700M)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Founded:** 2018
- **Parent company:** Cassava Technologies (private; group founded by Strive Masiyiwa, carved out of Liquid Telecom in 2021)
- **Operational footprint:** 5 named facilities: JHB1 Midrand, JHB2 Samrand, CPT1 Cape Town, NBO1 Nairobi, LOS1 Lagos
- **Countries operated:** South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria (with AI-factory expansion announced for Egypt and Morocco)
- **Interconnection density:** More than 50 carriers on-net; hosts JINX (Johannesburg), CINX (Cape Town) and KIXP (Nairobi) internet exchanges
- **Certifications:** ISO 27001 certified across the estate; PCI DSS compliant
- **Nvidia AI factory:** March 2025: Cassava and Nvidia announced Africa's first AI factory, deploying GPU capacity into ADC sites, with Johannesburg as the initial location and a planned rollout across Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa
- **Microsoft Azure hyperscale interconnect:** July 2026: JHB1 and JHB2 achieved Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro designation, providing dual-site private connectivity to Azure in Johannesburg
- **STANLIB expansion partnership:** October 2025: STANLIB Infrastructure Investments partnered with ADC to accelerate the operator's expansion pipeline (amount not disclosed on ADC's newsroom summary)
- **Sibling-company financing signal:** April 2026: Cassava sister company Liquid Intelligent Technologies closed a $300 million bond, 2.5x oversubscribed, indicating investor appetite for the group's African digital-infrastructure story
- **East Africa network extension:** November 2025: interconnect deal with Wingu Africa linking East African hubs into ADC's continental network
- **South Africa fibre expansion:** April 2026: partnership with Oni-Tel Fibre to widen data-centre connectivity in South Africa
- **Listing status:** Private; a subsidiary of privately held Cassava Technologies; no public ticker

- **Slug:** africa-data-centres
- **Founded:** 2020
- **HQ:** Johannesburg, South Africa

## Models

- [Africa Data Centres Lagos](/models/adc-lagos.md) (other) (id: `c4d41d98-778d-4d99-9059-1e0cf8eccf56`)
- [Africa Data Centres Nairobi](/models/adc-nairobi.md) (other) (id: `8f193ca1-4147-4cf2-884d-53bf00a1b4bb`)
- [Africa Data Centres Johannesburg](/models/adc-johannesburg.md) (other) (id: `8e9b46ce-4bf2-41da-812c-427c9e4c6ed0`)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Africa Data Centres?

Africa Data Centres (ADC) is the pan-African colocation platform of Cassava Technologies, operating carrier- and cloud-neutral facilities in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Its five named sites are JHB1 Midrand and JHB2 Samrand outside Johannesburg, CPT1 in Cape Town, NBO1 in Nairobi and LOS1 in Lagos, and it hosts three of the continent's principal internet exchanges (JINX, CINX and KIXP) as well as more than 50 network carriers.

### What does Africa Data Centres make?

Africa Data Centres has 3 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Africa Data Centres Lagos, Africa Data Centres Nairobi, Africa Data Centres Johannesburg (Africa Data Centres builds physical robots).

### Is Africa Data Centres publicly traded?

Africa Data Centres is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of privately held Cassava Technologies on the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Africa Data Centres?

Africa Data Centres has no separately traded stock; it is owned by privately held Cassava Technologies (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

### Where is Africa Data Centres headquartered?

Africa Data Centres is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

### Who owns Africa Data Centres?

Africa Data Centres is owned by privately held Cassava Technologies, per the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Africa Data Centres operate robots?

Africa Data Centres is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was Africa Data Centres founded?

Africa Data Centres was founded in 2020.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.africadatacentres.com/
2. https://www.africadatacentres.com/about-us
3. https://www.africadatacentres.com/newsroom/
4. https://www.africadatacentres.com/team

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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