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OADC Acquires Seven NTT Data Centres In SA
Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has officially announced the strategic acquisition of seven NTT data centres across South Africa.
The acquisition, which concluded on 31 December 2025 following approval by the Competition Commission, will significantly expand OADC’s national data centre footprint by adding seven facilities and increasing total capacity to more than 25 megawatts.
With a presence in South Africa, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), OADC is already one of the largest and most influential data centre operators on the African continent. By adding these new facilities, OADC reinforces its ‘core-to-edge’ proposition and is uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for digital services across Southern Africa, while strengthening its leadership in Africa’s digital transformation.
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Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of OADC, commented: “This acquisition represents a significant step forward in expanding our ability to deliver scalable, resilient colocation solutions where they are needed. It strengthens our market value proposition, positioning OADC as a critical partner in growing Africa’s digital economy. We can provide clients with a wider range of comprehensive resilience solutions, delivering geographically separated primary and disaster recovery data centre infrastructure for their businesses.”
OADC’s acquisition of these seven data centres underscores the company’s long-term vision to enable Africa’s digital ecosystem, drive economic growth, enrich society, and reinforce its role as a pivotal enabler of digital connectivity and technological advancement across the continent.
Dr Coker added: “Looking ahead beyond the immediate expansion of our operational presence, OADC plans on enhancing all of its data centres as part of its continuous facility enhancement process, bringing the introduction of advanced operational measures to ensure peak efficiency and reliability.”
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The acquisition is strategic not only in scale but in market timing. As cloud adoption, AI workloads, fintech platforms, and public sector digitization accelerate across Southern Africa, demand for low-latency, high-availability infrastructure is rising sharply. By absorbing established NTT facilities, OADC bypasses the long lead times associated with greenfield builds, enabling immediate capacity injection into high-demand metros. This strengthens its ability to support hyperscalers, carriers, and large enterprises seeking regional redundancy, regulatory compliance, and proximity to end users.
Equally important is the competitive positioning the deal creates. Integrating these sites deepens OADC’s interconnection density and ecosystem gravity, making its platforms more attractive for content providers, IXPs, and multi-cloud deployments. It also advances the company’s core-to-edge architecture, allowing workloads to be distributed more efficiently between central hubs and edge locations. In doing so, OADC is not just expanding infrastructure, but shaping the digital backbone required to power Africa’s next phase of data sovereignty, platform growth, and AI-driven innovation.