Burkina Faso launches two mini-data centres in data sovereignty push

China is reportedly planning to build a network to connect thousands of new data centres in the country with the aim of selling the excess compute power and alleviating a capacity glut.

iXAfrica Data Centres unveiled the first phase of its NBOX1 hyperscale data centre in Nairobi on Wednesday, and has also signed a deal with Kenya Internet Exchange Point (KIXP) to establish a peering PoP at the facility.