Vantage Data Centers is focusing on sustainability in South Africa. The American company wants to integrate solar energy into its project in Johannesburg, which is currently under construction. This is the aim of the power purchase agreement (PPA) recently signed with SolarAfrica, a solar energy provider based in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
The partnership between the two companies is to supply 87 MWp of solar photovoltaic power to the data centre being built on a 12-hectare estate in Waterfall City, a thriving ecosystem of businesses and data centres. The facility will be located 30 kilometres from Tambo International Airport. The campus will consist of three data centres.
A 20-year PPA
The first two-storey facility will offer 16 MWp of critical computing load and 12,000 square metres of space. The other two two-storey centres will each provide 32 MWp of critical computing…
SOUTH AFRICA: Vantage to power its data centres with solar energy
