Google Cloud Johannesburg
Google · Johannesburg
- IT live
- 30 MW
- Remaining
- 20 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $77
- White space
- 107k ft²
Inventory
60% occupiedPower
50 MWcampus
20 MW to commission · 30 MW in use
White space
179k ft²total
71k ft² free · 107k ft² occupied
17k m² · 6,636 m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 32.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$77/kW·mo
9.4¢ industrial · 10.5¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $922k
- This site · 30 MW
- $28M/yr
- 25 kW rack
- $1,921/mo
2.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $18M/yr less.
Eskom Gauteng · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+2
- Opened
- 2024
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 25 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Eskom plus on-site diesel and solar. Extended runtime sized for load-shedding ride-through.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
25 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
—
Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.
TPU liquid loops in AI halls; evaporative/air on CPU.
Network carriers
6On-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
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Johannesburg metro (africa-south1)
-26.100°, 28.050° · Africa
Tenants / users
Google Cloud
Notes
Google's first African cloud region (africa-south1).
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.