Hard on the heels of last week’s news that MainOne is to expand its data centre brand into Accra in Ghana, US-based First Brick Holdings has announced that it is entering the Ethiopian market.
First Brick Holdings, a US-based investment company, announced at the recent Datacloud Africa Leadership Summit in Accra that it is establishing and investing in Raxio Ethiopia, which will build and operate the first state-of-the-art, privately owned data centre in Ethiopia.
As with First Brick’s first data centre facility in Uganda, Raxio Uganda, due for completion in February 2020, the new data centre will be constructed and operated as a Tier III standard facility, serving the demand for high-quality co-location data centre services in Ethiopia.
The key target industries for Raxio Ethiopia will be financial services, cloud service providers, IT companies, media companies, local and regional enterprises and content delivery networks. As the telecom sector opens up, says First Brick, new carriers and internet service providers will join to create a new hub of connectivity in the country.
The data centre will meet the uptime, redundancy and maintainability requirements established under the Tier III standard. The facility will also adhere to the principle of neutrality, both for carriers and ISPs, as new players begin to enter the Ethiopian market, and for cloud service providers, which will be able to operate freely from within the data centre.
First Brick Holdings plans to complete more data centre investments in the region within the next four years, with five Tier III data centres due to be live by 2022.
