Data centers in Kenya

15 data centers are listed in Kenya. The cities with the most listings are Nairobi (10), Mombasa (2), Embu (1) and Konza Technopolis (1); together they hold 93% of them. The operators with the most listings are Digital Realty (4), Safaricom PLC (2) and Icolo Limited (1), out of 7 named operators.

By type, the listings in Kenya are 33% enterprise, 33% colocation and 27% unclassified. Across all listed countries the enterprise share is 16%. By published utility power, the largest single buildings are Digital Realty MBA2 (Digital Realty, 3.9 MW) and Digital Realty NBO1 (Digital Realty, 2.5 MW).

Worldwide, Kenya ranks 60th of 152 countries by number of listings, with under 1% of all listed facilities. It has the most listings in Eastern Africa, ahead of Ethiopia (8), Tanzania (5) and Uganda (5).

The three operators with the most listings hold 47% of them; 5 of the 7 named operators have a single listed facility here. Published power figures for single buildings add up to 8 MW of utility power across 3 buildings; buildings that publish no figure are not counted. 6 facilities hold an Uptime Institute Tier certification (6 Tier III). Tier III: Icolo NBO1, Konza National Data Center, Phase 1, Africa Data Centre NBO1.1, NBO1.2, and NBO1.3, Phase 1, NPS Primary Data Centre and 2 others. Listings not yet in operation: 1 announced.