The City of Cape Town has cleared two hyperscale campuses drawing roughly 174MW combined, among the largest new individual loads on the African grid. The approvals land against McKinsey projections that continental installed capacity grows from about 0.4GW today to 1.5–2.2GW by 2030, needing an estimated $10–20bn of investment.
Teraco began construction of JB7, a 40MW critical-load facility on its Isando campus in Ekurhuleni, funded through an R8bn syndicated loan and due to open in 2026. It takes the campus to about 110MW and uses a zero-water cooling design, which matters in a market where the water constraint is as binding as the power one.
Paratus completed a 1,890km link from Johannesburg to Swakopmund through Botswana, connecting into the Equiano cable it lands in Namibia and giving 123ms to Lisbon. It is an alternative to routing everything through Cape Town, which is what turns a landing station into a transit position.
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