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SA Data Centre Power Near Doubles

South Africa Data Centre Power Demand Forecast to Nearly Double by 2029

Unverified — auto-generated summary, not yet reviewedInfrastructureSouth AfricaJul 14, 2026

New forecasts project that South Africa's data centre sector will require nearly double its current power capacity by 2029, driven by AI workload growth and digital infrastructure expansion. Analysts warn that inadequate planning could produce outages in one of the continent's most important data centre markets.

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