Airtel Africa launches Nxtra by Airtel to accelerate Africa’s digital transition

Airtel Africa today launches Nxtra by Airtel (“Nxtra”), a new data centre
business founded on a commitment to meet the continent’s growing needs for trusted, and
sustainable data centre capacity and to serve the fast-growing African digital economy.
Nxtra aims to build one of the largest network of data centres in Africa with high-capacity data centres
in major cities located strategically across Airtel Africa’s footprint, complementing its existing edge
sites.
Nxtra’s ambition will allow it to serve the growing need of African enterprises and its data centre
infrastructure will be designed to host the next generation of computing, while providing multi-MW
capacity in a phased manner.
These facilities will meet stringent global security requirements and meet ‘five nines’ 1 availability.
Coupled with Airtel Africa’s extensive fibre footprint, Nxtra offers secure and scalable integrated
solutions to global hyper-scalers, large African enterprises, startups, SMEs and governments.
Through locally available data centre capacity, speed to access digital services will improve and the
cost of managing data will be reduced, thus helping power increased innovation, while supporting a
new generation of African tech talent. Furthermore, Nxtra is enabling customers meet data
sovereignty requirements while at the same time enabling more local cloud services to be offered in
the countries where Airtel Africa operates.
The first major Nxtra facility in Lagos, Nigeria, will deliver 34 MW of total power. It is designed to host
high density racks and integrate the latest best practice construction to achieve 1.3 power usage
effectiveness (PUE). It is expected to be live in mid-2025.
To deliver on Nxtra’s vision, Airtel Africa has appointed Yashnath Issur, the former head of Global
Data Centre Portfolio Management at Amazon Web Services, as CEO of Nxtra by Airtel. Yashnath
has 16 years of experience in the industry and has, over the past year, built a team of experts to
execute on the strategy.
Airtel Africa’s Group CEO, Segun Ogunsanya said: “A rapid increase in data centre capacity is
needed to support the growth potential of Africa’s digital economy. We’re proud to drive the future of
Africa’s digital infrastructure, unlocking opportunities for businesses to grow and fuelling economic
prosperity. Airtel Africa’s team has consistently shown our ability to deliver on infrastructure projects
across Africa, and we are confident that our next generation data centres will support our ambition to
become the partner of choice for global customers and Africa’s newest tech unicorns alike.”

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