Open Access DC Cape Town
Open Access Data Centres · Cape Town
- IT live
- 8 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.6 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $97
- White space
- 50k ft²
Inventory
80% occupiedPower
8 MWlive
1.6 MW to lease · 6.4 MW in use
White space
50k ft²total
10k ft² free · 40k ft² occupied
4,645 m² · 929 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 12 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$97/kW·mo
10.2¢ industrial · 13.3¢ after PUE 1.30
- Per MW·year
- $1.2M
- This site · 8 MW
- $9.3M/yr
- 10 kW rack
- $968/mo
3.2× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $6.4M/yr less.
Eskom / City of Cape Town · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2021
- Renewable match
- 20%
- Rack density
- 10 kW
- PUE
- 1.301.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Eskom plus on-site diesel and solar. Extended runtime sized for load-shedding ride-through.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
10 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
—
Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.
Chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Liquid-ready suites offered on newer campus halls.
Network carriers
6On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
4Native 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
-33.940°, 18.500° · Africa
Tenants / users
Cloud, enterprise, subsea
Notes
OADC Cape Town. Complements Teraco and ADC.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.