In recent years, data center providers have stepped up investments in the African market. With this new investment, MainOne wants to attract additional clients and gain more market share. 

Nigerien data center provider MainOne announced on Monday, November 6, the commissioning of a new data center in VITIB (Village des Technologies de l'Information et de la Biotechnologie) located in the town of Grand-Bassam in Côte d'Ivoire. The aim is, among other things, to meet the growing demand for digital services, connectivity, and data storage in Côte d'Ivoire and French-speaking West Africa.

"With this launch of our new data center in Cote d’Ivoire, we are entering an exciting phase of transformation for businesses as it delivers a great opportunity to welcome more customers into our rich digital ecosystem, interconnected to the major digital players in the region and delivering 100% uptime connectivity to the internet. We expect this state-of-the-art facility to become a catalyst for digital innovation, providing a robust infrastructure for enterprises to thrive, and further reinforcing Cote d’Ivoire as the digital hub for the Francophone West African region," said Etienne Kouadio Doh, MainOne’s Country Manager in Cote D’Ivoire.

Like many cloud service providers, MainOne is capitalizing on the growing potential of the African market. The Nigerien provider, which set up its first data center on the continent in 2019, wants to conquer new markets. Hence the strategic choice of Côte d’Ivoire, which has become the favorite destination of many multinational companies eying the West African region, to host its data center. In October 2021, the French group Orange and the American Oracle signed a partnership agreement to build several African cloud regions. Côte d’Ivoire was unsurprisingly on the list of countries chosen for the project.  In November 2022, neutral data center provider Raxio Group announced the construction of its first infrastructure in Grand-Bassam in the framework of a project that aims to build more than a dozen similar infrastructure in Africa by 2025. 

Let’s note that MainOne is a subsidiary of Equinix, a global provider of digital infrastructure with more than 240 data centers in 32 countries on five continents.

Adoni Conrad Quenum