Orange Business Africa Data Centres
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Orange Business’s African data center footprint consists of a network of company-built and operated facilities spread across roughly eight countries — Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Tunisia — that the telecom group uses to sell colocation, hosting and cloud services to enterprise and public-sector customers across the continent. As of 2026, Orange (across Europe, Africa and the Middle East combined) states it owns around 75 data centers, with the African facilities ranging from purpose-built Tier III sites such as its Gaborone, Botswana center to large legacy hubs like the Douala, Cameroon and Rufisque, Senegal complexes that were, at their respective openings, described as the largest of their kind in Central/West Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Rather than operating as a pure-play colocation or cloud specialist, Orange Business layers colocation, hosting and its “Orange Business Cloud” and “Flexible Engine” offerings on top of infrastructure the group itself designs, builds, and runs, often in partnership with local subsidiaries such as Orange Egypt, Orange Maroc and Sonatel in Senegal. A recurring theme across the African portfolio is government and sovereignty-linked development — including a $135 million data center built for Egypt’s New Administrative Capital and a Tier III facility developed inside Botswana’s state-backed Digital Innovation Hub Science and Technology Park.
Orange Business Africa Data Centres operates as a cloud provider and colocation provider, with facilities at the following locations:
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Orange Business Africa Data Centres Data Center Locations
- Gaborone, Botswana Orange Botswana Data Center (Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub) TIER III PENDING REVIEW
This was the first Tier III-certified data center in Botswana and only the third of that tier in Southern Africa when it opened. - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Orange Burkina Faso Data Center (Balkuy) PENDING REVIEW
In 2023, Orange partnered with SolarX to solarize this Balkuy facility, targeting coverage of around 37 percent of the site's daytime electricity needs. - Douala, Cameroon Orange Cameroon Data Center (Makepe) PENDING REVIEW
At its May 2017 inauguration, this 12,880 sq m Makepe complex was presented as the largest Orange data center hub in Central and West Africa. - Alexandria, Egypt Orange Egypt Alexandria Data Center (Al-Awayd) PENDING REVIEW
This facility was inaugurated in 2020 in partnership with Huawei to host the jointly launched Orange Business Cloud collaborative cloud computing offering for Egyptian businesses. - Cairo, Egypt Orange Egypt Cairo Data Center PENDING REVIEW
- New Administrative Capital region, Egypt New Administrative Capital Data Center PENDING REVIEW
Built under a $135 million contract as prime contractor for the Administrative Capital for Urban Development, this facility was intended to host the smart city's Operation Center and offer IoT, cloud, and AI-related platforms for the new capital east of Cairo. - Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast Groupement Orange Services (GOS) Data Center TIER III PENDING REVIEW
This facility hosts IT and telecommunications equipment supporting services for all 18 of Orange's African and Middle Eastern subsidiaries, and won an award for best data center in Africa at the 2017 Datacloud congress in Monaco. - Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast Assabou Data Center PENDING REVIEW
In 2023, Orange Côte d'Ivoire partnered with energy firm SolarX to add solar power that would cover around half of this facility's daytime electricity needs, as part of the company's stated 2040 net-zero ambition. - Casablanca, Morocco Orange Maroc Data Centers DC1 & DC2 (Nouaceur) PENDING REVIEW
Orange's newest 1.5MW Casablanca facility, opened in the Nouaceur area, was described by the company as its largest data center in Africa and includes more than 1,000 on-site solar panels. - Rabat, Morocco Orange Maroc DC3 PENDING REVIEW
- Tangier, Morocco Orange Maroc DC4 PENDING REVIEW
- Rufisque, Senegal Sonatel/Orange Rufisque Data Center TIER III+ PENDING REVIEW
At its June 2017 inauguration, this 3.5-hectare, roughly 2,224 sq m facility with three data halls was described as the largest data center of its scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. - Tunis, Tunisia Orange Tunisie Data Center PENDING REVIEW
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Common Questions
Does Orange Business sell colocation space in Africa, or only cloud services?
Both. Orange Business's own product pages describe "data center colocation" as an offering where customers can use "Orange data centers to accommodate your infrastructures if you do not have any hosting solutions on your premises," and country-level facilities such as those in Egypt and Jordan are explicitly reported to offer colocation services to businesses alongside cloud hosting.
Has Orange found genuine evidence of dedicated AI/GPU infrastructure at its African facilities?
Not in the sense of purpose-built GPU clusters or liquid-cooled AI-factory infrastructure. The New Administrative Capital data center in Egypt is described as supporting artificial intelligence platforms as part of broader smart-city services, but this reflects general-purpose smart-city IT rather than confirmed high-density AI/GPU compute infrastructure.
What is Orange's largest or most notable African data center?
At its 2017 opening, the Sonatel/Orange datacenter in Rufisque, Senegal was described as the largest data center of its kind in West and Central Africa, built on over 3 hectares with Tier III+ certification; separately, Orange Cameroon's Douala (Makepe) complex, opened the same year, was billed as the largest Orange data center hub in Central and West Africa.
Are Orange's African data centers independently Tier-certified?
Several are. The Gaborone, Botswana facility received Uptime Institute Tier III design and facility certification, and the Rufisque, Senegal facility is described locally as "Tier 3+" certified, though not all African Orange sites have publicly confirmed third-party certifications.
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