Maputo, 29 May (AIM) – The intercontinental data center company, Raxio Mozambique, launched on Tuesday, in the Beluluane Industrial Park, on the outskirts of Maputo city, a data center budgeted at about 20 million US dollars.
The data center, which aggregates fiber connectivity, has capacity to connect both national and international Internet service providers, aiming at boosting the county’s digital transformation. This is the country’s first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre facility.
According to Raxio managing director, Emídio Amadebai, the infrastructure brings services to the local business community, as well as to the public sector in order to boost the digital ecosystem.
“In this data centre, we also have cloud and virtualization providers, which are crucial services these days for the public sector, as well as for the private sector, allowing us to fulfill the ambition of data sovereignty that the government has been pushing for in recent years, which is to ensure that we process our data internally”, he said.
The data center, he said, will also help the country to bring services to the country that usually come from abroad, such as TikTok, Microsoft and Google.
“We access these services outside the country typically and because of that, the cost of the internet is very high. We saw recently a protest by students who complained about the high cost of the internet in Mozambique. It is important to have the context here”, he said.
Amadebai explained that the infrastructure will allows major operators such as Microsoft and Amazon to come to Mozambique and set up their services.
“Now, they do it in neighboring countries where there is infrastructure of this dimension. When they do it outside the country, we have to pay a lot more to get those services. With connectivity providers in Raxio, then all these services end up being more affordable”, Amadebai said.
Raxio is now present in seven African countries: Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Angola and Tanzania.
“Our launch here, in Mozambique, is the second in a series of launches in 2024. It’s a big year for us. It’s not a coincidence, it’s the result of the work we’ve been doing for the last five years”, he said.
The project, in its construction phase, employed 200 workers. At the technology implementation phase, it counted on 80 employees. Right now, it employs just 17 people.
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