Teraco plans to transform its Cape Town data center, CT2, to a hyperscale facility. The expansion will see a 150%  increase in the critical IT load from 20MW to 50MW. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2025 and will incorporate the latest environmentally sustainable cooling and water management designs.

The expansion is driven by the growing demand from enterprise customers and hyperscale cloud providers for increased data center capacity. CT2’s phase 2 will include four data halls of 5.3MW, two data halls of 3.1MW, and two data halls of 2.2MW, built across three levels. Upon completion, CT2 will cover 73,000 square meters of building structure and be serviced by 90MVA of utility power supply.

The new facilities will add eight data halls, bringing the total to 16 halls with 18,000 square meters of deployment space. CT2 is already connected to Teraco’s other Cape Town data center, CT1, offering diverse fiber routes and direct connections to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute.

Cape Town was chosen for this expansion due to its thriving digitally connected enterprises, including telecoms, financial services, e-commerce, logistics, and retail. The city’s strategic location at the southern tip of Africa and its role as a confluence point for major subsea cable systems, such as Google’s Equiano, ACE, WACS,, and SAT 3/SAFE make it a prime location for data center growth. The 2Africa cable system is also expected to land soon, further enhancing the city’s subsea cable connectivity.