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The 2026 news cadence has been about layering hyperscale and financial connectivity on top of that base, including Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro at JHB1/JHB2 (July 2026) and a STANLIB Infrastructure Investments partnership (October 2025) to fund further expansion.\n\nADC is not publicly listed; it is one of the operating businesses inside Cassava Technologies, which raised a $310 million growth round in 2023 backed by Google, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the British International Investment and Finnfund among others. 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