Open Access Data Centres
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Open Access Data Centres (OADC) is a pan-African, carrier-neutral colocation operator, a subsidiary of the WIOCC Group, building and running Tier III data centres at major submarine cable landing points and business hubs across the continent. As of 2026, OADC operates facilities in South Africa, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, having grown from a single Durban site launched in 2021 into a network anchored by its flagship 20MW-plus Lagos campus (landing station for Google’s Equiano cable) and its Durban facility (landing station for the Meta-backed 2Africa cable). In late 2025 OADC sharply expanded its South African footprint by acquiring seven NTT DATA-operated data centres in a sale-leaseback deal, lifting its national capacity past 25MW while NTT DATA continues to manage client relationships at those sites. OADC’s core-to-edge model pairs these large hyperscale facilities with a growing web of smaller Edge data centres, and its Johannesburg Parklands site has recently been upgraded with Vertiv power and cooling infrastructure specifically to support hyperscale and AI-driven customer workloads.
Open Access Data Centres has a confirmed data center presence at the following locations:
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Phone: +27 11 030 0000 Email: [email protected]
Open Access Data Centres Data Center Locations
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo OADC Texaf Digital - Kinshasa (FIH1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This facility is the DRC's first live open-access, carrier-neutral, Uptime Institute Tier III-certified data centre, and is powered by grid electricity sourced from hydro generation. - Lagos, Nigeria OADC Lagos (LOS1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This four-hectare Lekki campus is described as the largest single data centre campus in West Africa and is the direct landing point for Google's 144Tbps Equiano subsea cable. - East London, South Africa OADC East London PENDING REVIEW
- Gqeberha, South Africa OADC Gqeberha PENDING REVIEW
- Bloemfontein, South Africa OADC Bloemfontein PENDING REVIEW
- Bryanston, South Africa OADC Bryanston PENDING REVIEW
- Johannesburg, South Africa OADC JNB1 (Isando)AI DATA CENTER TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
OADC JNB1 was deployed as a new core data centre in the Isando area to serve Johannesburg's cloud ecosystem with expansion capacity up to 15MW. - Durban, South Africa OADC Durban (DUR1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This facility in Amanzimtoti is the landing station for the Meta-backed 2Africa submarine cable, the only 2Africa landing point in KwaZulu-Natal. - Umhlanga, South Africa OADC Umhlanga PENDING REVIEW
- Brackenfell, South Africa OADC CPT2 (Brackenfell) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
The Brackenfell facility came online in January 2023 as one of two new OADC data centres launched in Cape Town within weeks of each other. - Cape Town, South Africa OADC CPT1 (Rondebosch) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This Rondebosch facility was configured with 5MVA of site load and roughly 980 square metres of white space, per its PeeringDB facility listing.
By Continent
Open Access Data Centres AI Data Centers
OADC's clearest AI-specific infrastructure investment so far is at its Parklands data centre in Johannesburg, where the company worked with Vertiv to standardise power, cooling, containment and energy-storage systems specifically to support hyperscaler and AI-driven customer workloads. The facility, originally built as a prefabricated modular Tier III site for a pan-African telecom operator, has since had a new IDC 10 data hall commissioned alongside its existing IDC 8 hall to extend capacity for these higher-density deployments. No other OADC facility currently has similarly documented AI-specific upgrades.
- Johannesburg, South Africa OADC JNB1 (Isando) AI DATA CENTER TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRALPENDING REVIEW
OADC JNB1 was deployed as a new core data centre in the Isando area to serve Johannesburg's cloud ecosystem with expansion capacity up to 15MW.
Common Questions
Does OADC have facilities built for AI or GPU workloads?
OADC's Parklands data centre in Johannesburg, originally a prefabricated modular Tier III facility, was upgraded with standardised Vertiv power protection, thermal management and containment systems specifically so it could support hyperscaler and AI-driven organisations' higher-density workloads, with a new IDC 10 data hall added to extend that capacity.
What submarine cables land at OADC facilities?
Google's Equiano subsea cable lands directly into OADC's flagship Lagos, Nigeria data centre, while the Meta-backed 2Africa cable lands at OADC's Durban, South Africa facility.
Which countries does OADC operate in?
As of 2026, OADC has physical data centres in South Africa, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of a broader plan first announced in 2021 to expand across up to 20 African countries.
How did OADC expand its South African footprint recently?
OADC acquired seven data centres from NTT DATA South Africa in a deal that concluded on 31 December 2025, taking on operational management of sites in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, East London, Gqeberha, Umhlanga, and Bryanston and Parklands in Johannesburg, while NTT DATA leases the space back and remains the client-facing operator.
Is OADC a wholesale colocation provider or does it also sell cloud services?
OADC describes itself as an open-access, carrier-neutral colocation operator selling rack, cage and wholesale space plus interconnection and peering services to telcos, ISPs, cloud operators and enterprises; it does not sell its own branded cloud compute service to customers.
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