Rahiel Nasir is a member of the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure analyst team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Based in London, he covers multi-tenant datacenter service providers in the EMEA region with a particular focus on Africa and the Middle East, providing insights into the colocation, connectivity, cloud and managed services markets. Prior to joining 451 Research, Rahiel was the editorial director of Networking+ magazine as well as several specialist B2B titles aimed at the ICT markets in Africa and South Asia. He has covered the technologies, services and businesses behind enterprise voice and data networks, and has written extensively about the deployment and development of carrier network infrastructures in developing markets. Rahiel started his career as a technology journalist with UK-based magazine publisher Haymarket Limited in 1989 and has also worked for BBC magazines. He was educated at the University of Manchester in England where he studied English and American and classical literature, as well as at the Postgraduate School of Journalism at City University, London.
With datacenters continuing to steadily expand across the region's capital cities of Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Oslo and Copehagen, this second part of our Nordic focus looks at the key players and their plans for the region.
Backed by multimillion-dollar investment, Nigerian datacenter provider Rack Centre has ambitions to build West Africa's biggest facilities. It is already developing its first hyperscale campus. But in a region that is witnessing new buildouts, new market entrants and new connectivity, it may be in for a rough ride.
The Nordics leased datacenter markets include Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. It's a region that offers providers unique advantages in terms of green energy resources, low power costs and the highest percentage of enterprises using cloud in Europe.
The company's campus in Johannesburg will feature three facilities once fully developed, as well as a dedicated on-site substation powered by Eskom. The first phase of the campus, a 16MW building, is due to be completed around Q3 2022.
The company currently leads Frankfurt's retail datacenter market. But with the need for wholesale capacity being fed by rising cloud and hyperscale demand, Equinix is about to launch the first of its mega xScale facilities in the city in a bid to offer the best of both worlds.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the market, a 451 Research Market Map(TM) 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.
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