Founded in 2012, Rack Centre is the only carrier neutral Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data centre in Africa and focuses solely on providing best in class data centre colocation services and unrestricted interconnect between carriers and customers. This gives customers a technically superior, physically more secure and lower cost environment for their information systems.
Rack Centre’s carrier neutrality allows customers to manage traffic to get better value, lower latency and higher resilience, and creates an open market for partnerships between customers, networks, cloud and content providers, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria and managed service providers.
Rack Centre clients include over 40 telecommunication carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), global Tier 1 networks and pan Africa international carriers, including direct connection to all 5 undersea cables serving the South Atlantic Coast of Africa and every country on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
Rack Centre’s carrier neutrality allows customers to manage traffic to get better value, lower latency and higher resilience, and creates an open market for partnerships between customers, networks, cloud and content providers, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria and managed service providers.
Rack Centre clients include over 40 telecommunication carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), global Tier 1 networks and pan Africa international carriers, including direct connection to all 5 undersea cables serving the South Atlantic Coast of Africa and every country on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
Location: Nigeria, Lagos, Ikeja
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2012
Investors 2
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| 14.04.2025 | Rack Centre’s LGS2 12MW Data Centre, gamechanger to revolutionise Nigeria’s digital landscape | Lagos, Nigeria- April 10, 2025. The newly commissioned LGS2 12MW IT Load Data Centre built by Rack Centre-West Africa’s leading Tier III carrier and cloud neutral data centre, has been described as the best-in-class and a game changer that ... |
| 28.03.2025 | Nigeria's Data Revolution: Rack Centre's 12MW LGS2 Data Centre Sets New Standards | In the heart of Lagos, a technological revolution is brewing. Rack Centre, a titan in West Africa's data landscape, is set to unveil its latest marvel: the 12MW LGS2 Data Centre. This facility is not just another data hub; it’s a beacon of ... |
| 26.03.2025 | Rack Centre Set to Commission 12MW LGS2 Data Centre, Hyperscale & AI-Ready, Lowest Power Usage Efficiency in Nigeria. | Lagos, Nigeria- March 19, 2025. The newly built 12MW LGS2 Data Centre by Rack Centre, West Africa’s leading Tier III Carrier and Cloud Neutral Data Centre facility, is Hyperscale & AI-ready, and one of the most energy-efficient faciliti... |
| 26.03.2025 | Nigeria: Rack Centre Set to Commission 12mw Lgs2 Data Centre, Hyperscale and Ai-Ready | The multi-million-dollar investment, was intentionally designed and built to be energy efficient with the lowest PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) in the region and based on its use of a sustainable power generation mix of predominantly gas powe... |
| 23.07.2024 | Rack Centre, others canvass for the use of waste to generate energy | (L-R) Adetayo Odusole, Head, Sustainability Coordination, Rack Centre; Dolapo Olaoluwa, Convener, NYSC CDS Project – WTE Summit; Mrs Yetunde Baderinwa, State Coordinator NYSC Lagos State; Ezekiel Egboye, Chief Operating Officer, Rack Centre... |
| 26.01.2024 | Rack Centre Appoints Lars Johannisson as Chief Executive Officer | Lagos, Nigeria – January 25, 2024 Rack Centre, West Africa’s Best-connected Carrier and Cloud neutral data centre has announced the appointment of Lars Johannisson as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Johannisson, an accomplished leader ... |
| 06.10.2023 | Rack Centre set to Train Artisans from Host Communities to Build LGS2 Data Centre. | Rack Centre, West Africa’s Best-connected Carrier and Cloud neutral data centre has launched a sustainability initiative to train artisans from its host community to be involved in the building of LGS2, a new best-in-class data centre in La... |
| 19.07.2021 | Rack Centre Expands Its West Africa’s Carrier Neutral Tier III Data Centre, Doubling the Capacity at the Lagos Campus | Rack Centre Lagos Data Centre Campus: LGS 1 The Lagos Campus data centre has grown to be the largest carrier neutral digital infrastructure hub in West Africa and West Central Africa, halving the latency of data transfer from South Africa t... |
| 02.09.2020 | Rack Centre announces $100m expansion to create West Africa’s largest data centre | This will be in addition to the current expansion already underway to double existing capacity to 1.5MW and 1,200 square metres of white space in early 2021. The expansion will bring unprecedented carrier neutral scale to West Africa and is... |
| 31.08.2020 | Rack Centre announces $100m expansion to create West Africa’s largest data centre. | - |
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