Teraco, Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data center provider, has completed the expansion project at its DB1 facility in Durban, South Africa. The DB1 facility, situated on Durban’s north coast, is a strategic interconnection hub on the African subsea cable map with direct access to multiple cable systems, including SEACOM,, EASSy, MÉTISS, and the upcoming 2Africa cable from Meta.. The expansion has doubled DB1’s capacity to 2.2 megawatts (MW) of critical power load, with the facility now comprising 5,800 square meters of building structure accommodating over 700 racks. 

The DB1 facility provides enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco, a rich ecosystem of over 250 network providers, global cloud on-ramps, subsea cable systems, managed service providers, and direct peering at NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest internet exchange point. The completion of this expansion supports the growing demand for data center capacity in Durban, a key South African manufacturing hub.

Teraco has been making big data center moves recently.  It announced a 150% increase in the critical IT workload of its Teraco Cape Town data center, CT2, as it seeks hyperscale status while its internet exchange point, NAPAfrica, crossed a peak traffic of 3.95 TBPS, almost double its traffic in two years. .