iXAfrica Data Centre Limited (iXAfrica), one of East and Central Africa’s largest hyperscale, carrier-neutral, AI-ready facilities, will collaborate with Oracle as the host partner for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya.
Plans for this project were announced originally by President William Ruto in January 2024, and this new public cloud region aims to cater to the strong demand for public cloud services in Kenya.
In a press release, iXAfrica said that its 22 MW campus combines “carrier neutrality, high-density AI capability, resilient power architecture, and proximity to critical connectivity infrastructure”, thus making it a suitable partner for this project to support public cloud deployments at scale.
“We are delighted to be in execution mode to bring OCI to Kenya,” said Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica. “With this collaboration, iXAfrica is leveraging the renewable energy, talent, and abundant submarine and national connectivity available in our market.”
By hosting OCI locally, iXAfrica aims to enable organizations in the region to accelerate digital transformation, deploy latency-sensitive applications, and build AI-powered services closer to end users. This collaboration hopes to lay the foundation for a more resilient, sovereign, and globally competitive digital economy anchored on infrastructure within Kenya.
“Around the world, governments and enterprises rely on OCI for its security, scalability, and ability to run mission-critical workloads that enable innovation at scale,” said David Bunei, country leader Kenya, Oracle. “These unique capabilities and our collaboration with iXAfrica will further support the growth of the country’s digital economy.”
iXAfrica says that the construction, power, and connectivity infrastructure is already in advanced stages of deployment, and that it is operating in full execution mode to support hyperscale cloud platforms.