Why MTN is building Tier-4 data centre in Nigeria—CTO

Mohammed Rufai, MTN
Nigeria's Chief Technology Officer

The Chief Technical Officer of MTN Nigeria, Mohammed Rufai, said the company is currently building a 1,500-rack Tier 4 data centre to enhance Nigeria’s digital infrastructure.

Rufai, who disclosed this while speaking with the media over the weekend, said the facility would be Africa’s largest data centre and play a pivotal role in meeting the growing data demands and digital needs of businesses and consumers nationwide.

MTN’s data centre came as the latest of several such projects that have been announced in Nigeria lately as tech companies move to bridge the digital infrastructure gap. Earlier in March this year, Airtel Africa performed the groundbreaking for its NXTra data center project in Lagos.

By Samson Akintaro.

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