Teraco CT1 Rondebosch
Expanding Small-scaleAlso known as: Teraco CT1 · Teraco Cape Town 1 · CT1 Rondebosch
Overview
Capacity
What is IT load? →- IT load — current
- 3 MW
- Building area
- 3,500 m²
Teraco reports 2,500 square meters of current data halls plus a 1,000 square meter expansion.
Power in context
5 MW IT load ≈ 14,500 South African households (avg 250 kWh/month)
0.3% of Cape Town's peak grid demand (1,676 MW)
0.02% of South Africa's effective grid capacity (~30 GW available)
Comparable to a mid-size cloud data centre
Infrastructure
Tier guide →Cooling adequacy for AI workloads has not been independently assessed for this facility.
AI data centres require ~100 kW/rack (10× conventional). Liquid cooling at rack level is the key differentiator. Learn more →
Power
PPAs & wheeling →- Grid utility
- City of Cape Town
- Grid carbon intensity
- 900 g CO₂/kWh
City of Cape Town large loads are ultimately Eskom-backed; grid-level figure, not facility-specific.
Grid carbon context
900 g CO₂/kWh — Very high — coal-heavy grid
2.1× the global average (436 g CO₂/kWh, IEA 2022). Compare: France ~60, UK ~175, US ~400 g CO₂/kWh.
Grid-level estimate. PPAs and on-site renewables may reduce the effective carbon footprint.
Water
Water stress →- Water source
- unknown
- Water stress (WRI)
- high
Governance
Data residency →- Jurisdiction
- South Africa
- Data residency
- Data physically resident in South Africa under POPIA jurisdiction
Workload Profile
Training vs inference →Carrier-neutral colocation campus operated under the Teraco brand. Daily Maverick describes a 60MW Cape Town expansion by Teraco but does not confirm AI-specific workloads or GPU capacity.
Claims
About claims →Claims are tracked separately from sourced facts because their status is contested or evolving. A disputed claim is not the same as a confirmed fact.
Daily Maverick reports a 60MW Teraco expansion in Cape Town and links to the CT1 Rondebosch announcement. Teraco's own CT1 release reports 3MW current critical IT load plus a 2MW expansion, not 60MW at CT1. The structured capacity fields follow Teraco's company-official CT1 figures.
Entities
Operator
Teraco
Owner
Digital Realty
Location
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
-33.9637, 18.4762
city precisionStatus History
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expanded
2025-11-12
Teraco announced commencement of the CT1 Rondebosch expansion.
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operational
2012-01-01
Older CT1 facility; exact opening date not verified in the cited sources.
Record
- ID
- teraco-ct1-rondebosch
- First tracked
- 2026-05-11
- Last verified
- 2026-06-29
Sources
- s1 New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town's current electricity supply — Daily Mavericklocal journalism retrieved 2026-06-29 not yet archived
- s2 Teraco announces CT1 data centre expansion in Rondebosch, Cape Town — Teracocompany official retrieved 2026-06-29 not yet archived
About these source tiers
Local news outlets; variable editorial standards, used for leads and corroboration.
Press releases, investor relations filings, and product pages from the operating company.
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