Mai Barakat is an analyst on the 451 Research Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her research focuses on datacenter market activity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her key research areas include emerging datacenter markets; retail, wholesale and cloud provider activity; industry growth projections; market share analysis; government incentives and regulations; and pricing dynamics. Before joining the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team in 2020, her focus was on mobile telecommunications and 5G in Europe. Prior to that she spent more than 10 years at Omdia covering mobile/fixed telecommunications and TV in the Middle East and Africa, with a special focus on mobile banking and fintech initiatives in emerging markets. Mai holds a Bachelor of Science in international management and French from the University of Bath, UK and an MSc in marketing. She is fluent in Arabic and French.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the market, a listing of the competitors in the area, market share of the dominant providers, supply-demand and utilization trends, and discussion of planned multi-tenant datacenter builds.
The provider's strategic focus on scalability and flexibility has positioned it well across Europe, but particularly in the increasingly competitive landscape of Paris, where demand for datacenter services continues to grow. The new DATA4 campus in Paris is set to allow the provider to add supply for the next few years.
The datacenter provider continues to maintain expansion in a datacenter sector that has significant growth potential. It recently hosted its annual EMEA Analyst Day in London, detailing current performance metrics and its corporate strategy for datacenter markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as Asia-Pacific.
The datacenter market in Nairobi is one of the fasting-growing in Africa, driven by heightened demand for cloud services and colocation. Africa Data Centres has created a name and brand for itself in Nairobi, and is looking at how it can build out its footprint in the city to cater to hyperscale demand.
The company aims to meet anticipated demand from large enterprises and cloud providers in Kenya. Its ability to tap into Digital Realty's resources has allowed for it to build advanced, scalable infrastructure that it hopes will attract global cloud players. Icolo is well placed to take advantage of this future growth potential in the Kenyan market, particularly in Nairobi.
Africa is moving toward digitization, and cloud infrastructure development in key markets has the potential to push economic growth and support digital transformation in the continent. However, developing cloud infrastructure has its challenges, and various factors will need to be addressed.
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