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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Airtel Africa has launched Nxtra by Airtel (\u201cNxtra\u201d), a new data centre business founded on a commitment to meet the continent\u2019s growing needs for trusted, and sustainable data centre capacity and to serve the fast-growing African digital economy.<\/p>\n

Nxtra aims to build one of the largest network of data centres in Africa with high-capacity data centres in major cities located strategically across Airtel Africa\u2019s footprint, complementing its existing edge sites.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Airtel says Nxtra\u2019s ambition will allow it to serve the growing need of African enterprises and its data centre infrastructure will be designed to host the next generation of computing, while providing multi-MW capacity in a phased manner.<\/p>\n

These facilities will meet stringent global security requirements and meet \u2018five nines\u20191 availability. Coupled with Airtel Africa\u2019s extensive fibre footprint, Nxtra offers secure and scalable integrated solutions to global hyper-scalers, large African enterprises, startups, SMEs and governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough locally available data centre capacity, speed to access digital services will improve and the cost of managing data will be reduced, thus helping power increased innovation, while supporting a new generation of African tech talent. Furthermore, Nxtra is enabling customers meet data sovereignty requirements while at the same time enabling more local cloud services to be offered in the countries where Airtel Africa operates,\u201d the mobile telecommunications company says in a statement.<\/p>\n

The first major Nxtra facility in Lagos, Nigeria, will deliver 34 MW of total power. It is designed to host high density racks and integrate the latest best practice construction to achieve 1.3 power usage effectiveness (PUE). It is expected to be live in mid-2025.<\/p>\n

To deliver on Nxtra\u2019s vision, Airtel Africa has appointed Yashnath Issur, the former head of Global Data Centre Portfolio Management at Amazon Web Services, as CEO of Nxtra by Airtel. Yashnath has 16 years of experience in the industry and has, over the past year, built a team of experts to execute on the strategy.<\/p>\n

Airtel Africa\u2019s Group CEO, Segun Ogunsanya said a rapid increase in data centre capacity is needed to support the growth potential of Africa\u2019s digital economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud to drive the future of Africa\u2019s digital infrastructure, unlocking opportunities for businesses to grow and fuelling economic prosperity. Airtel Africa\u2019s team has consistently shown our ability to deliver on infrastructure projects across Africa, and we are confident that our next generation data centres will support our ambition to become the partner of choice for global customers and Africa\u2019s newest tech unicorns alike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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