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Teraco Isando Campus (JB1 + JB3 + JB5)

Also known as Teraco Isando Campus, Teraco JB1 + JB3 + JB5, Teraco JB1, Teraco JB3, Teraco Johannesburg Isando

Status
Operational
Location
Isando, South Africa
Operator
Teraco
IT load
40 MW running
Timeline
Not disclosed
Last verified

Overview

This record covers Teraco's Isando campus, not a single JB1 building. The 2023 technical sheet in data/sources/2023-Teraco-Tech-Spec-Isando-Campus.pdf is titled "JB1 + JB3 Isando Campus"; Teraco's current Johannesburg page presents the Isando campus as JB1 + JB3 + JB5.

The technical sheet reports 45,000 square meters of total space, 20,000 square meters of white space, 80MVA total power, and 40MVA available IT power load across the data centre footprint. Because the schema has MW fields but no MVA fields, the power figures are recorded as MW-equivalent with notes.

Cloud on-ramps and provider names are treated as connectivity/ecosystem evidence, not as proof that the named cloud providers are tenants in this facility.

Capacity

What IT load means
IT load — current
40 MW
The technical sheet reports 40MVA available IT power load across the data centre footprint; stored as MW-equivalent pending schema support for MVA.
reported Source [s2]
Total facility power
80 MW
The technical sheet reports 80MVA total power; stored as MW-equivalent pending schema support for MVA.
reported Source [s2]
Building area
45,000 m²
The technical sheet reports over 45,000 square meters of total space.
reported Source [s2]

Infrastructure

Tier certification explained
Cooling
Not disclosed
The technical sheet reports N+1 cooling redundancy and environmental controls but does not identify a cooling technology.
reported Source [s2]
Connectivity
NAPAfrica Internet Exchange, Africa Cloud Exchange, Cloud on-ramps for Amazon, Google, Huawei, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and VMware Cloud Verified providers, Carrier-neutral network and interconnection hub
reported Source [s1] Source [s2]
AI cooling readiness
Not assessed

Cooling adequacy for AI workloads has not been independently assessed for this facility.

AI racks draw around 100 kW each, about ten times a conventional rack, so rack-level liquid cooling is the key differentiator. Training versus inference

Power

PPAs and wheeling
Backup
diesel
The technical sheet reports diesel backup generators with a minimum 48 hours of fuel under full-load design conditions.
confirmed Source [s2]

Governance

Data residency explained
Jurisdiction
South Africa
confirmed Source [s1] Source [s2]

Workloads

Training versus inference
  • General cloud
  • Colocation

Teraco describes the Isando campus as a carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection hub with cloud on-ramps. No public source reviewed here confirms dedicated AI training capacity, GPU counts, or active liquid-cooled AI deployments.

Sources

How sources are ranked
  1. [s1]
    Johannesburg Data Centre Locations, Teraco

    company official Retrieved 29 June 2026 Not yet archived

  2. [s2]
    Teraco JB1 + JB3 Isando Campus technical specifications, PDF retrieved from the Equinix/Teraco site and stored in data/sources/2023-Teraco-Tech-Spec-Isando-Campus.pdf, Teraco

    company official Retrieved 29 June 2026 Not yet archived

What these source types mean
company official
Press releases, investor relations filings, and product pages from the operating company.