DPA signs 20-year power deal with Africa’s largest data centre provider

AFRICA Data Centres, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies group, has signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Distributed Power Africa (DPA) for the supply 12MW of renewable solar energy.

Under the agreement DPA SA will supply 12MW of renewable solar energy to the South African facilities of Africa Data Centres, a company that hosts the largest network of data centres in Africa.

Energy will be delivered to Africa Data Centres’ facilities partly from the solar farm DPA is developing near Bloemfontein to deliver the first 12MW required for the ADC data centres.

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