AWS Africa Cape Town
Amazon Web Services · Cape Town Cloud Region
- IT live
- 40 MW
- Remaining
- 30 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $88
- White space
- 167k ft²
Inventory
57% occupiedPower
70 MWcampus
30 MW to commission · 40 MW in use
White space
292k ft²total
125k ft² free · 167k ft² occupied
27k m² · 12k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 47.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$88/kW·mo
10.2¢ industrial · 12¢ after PUE 1.18
- Per MW·year
- $1.1M
- This site · 40 MW
- $42M/yr
- 20 kW rack
- $1,757/mo
3.2× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $29M/yr less.
Eskom / City of Cape Town · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2020
- Renewable match
- 50%
- Rack density
- 20 kW
- PUE
- 1.181.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Eskom plus on-site diesel and solar. Extended runtime sized for load-shedding ride-through.
Cooling
Plant
Evaporative
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
20 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.12 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 42k m³/yr at 40 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. AWS 2025 sustainability disclosure.
Evaporative baseline; liquid-ready AI halls. Three-AZ region.
Network carriers
7On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Cape Town metro (af-south-1)
-33.910°, 18.550° · Africa
Tenants / users
AWS customers
Notes
AWS's only African region (af-south-1). Three AZs in the Cape Town metro.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.