--- title: South Africa’s data centre market ripe for consolidation description: South Africa's data centre market is experiencing consolidation as Open Access Data Centres acquires seven NTT Data facilities. Industry experts predict more... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/south-africa-s-data-centre-market-ripe-for-consolidation-ph0m9rulp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: South Africa’s data centre market ripe for consolidation | daily.dev og:description: South Africa's data centre market is experiencing consolidation as Open Access Data Centres acquires seven NTT Data facilities. Industry experts predict more... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/south-africa-s-data-centre-market-ripe-for-consolidation-ph0m9rulp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pH0m9RULp.png og:image:alt: South Africa’s data centre market ripe for consolidation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # South Africa’s data centre market ripe for consolidation **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary South Africa's data centre market is experiencing consolidation as Open Access Data Centres acquires seven NTT Data facilities. Industry experts predict more mergers and acquisitions driven by the need for scale, vertical integration, and end-to-end solutions. NTT is shifting to an asset-light model focused on managed services, while infrastructure providers like Wiocc are building integrated platforms spanning subsea cables, data centres, and edge facilities. The trend reflects timing challenges in infrastructure investment and anticipated demand for AI inference capabilities closer to end users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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