A multi-country AI rollout usually means managing a different data centre operator, a different carrier and a different interconnection point in every market. WIOCC Group removes that overhead: one carrier-neutral data centre partner (OADC), one pan-African network (WIOCC), one open interconnection fabric (OAfabric), so your team spends its time on GPUs and models, not vendor management across a continent.
Reserved capacity on a traditional hyperscaler region can mean a four-to-ten-week wait. WIOCC's sister company, Open Access Data Centre's ready-built, carrier-neutral halls are designed for hyperscale and AI density from day one, so there is no custom build and no requalification delay. Once you are live, WIOCC’s subsea and terrestrial network and OAfabric’s open interconnection platform let you reach the rest of the continent from that first site, rather than negotiating a new build in every market you enter.
Power, not floor space, is the real ceiling on African AI deployments, a lesson the market has already learned the hard way. Open Access Data Centre's facilities are built around a strategy designed specifically to avoid that outcome, so capacity timelines are something we can discuss honestly with you from the first conversation, not a surprise six months in.
Global Connectivity services are available between client sites, carrier Points-of-Presence (PoPs), data centres, internet exchanges and submarine cable landing stations anywhere on WIOCC’s global network, which extends to more than 550 locations in 30 countries in Africa, and over 700 cities in 70 countries globally.
Most Neo Hyperscalers evaluating Africa are really asking a connectivity question, even when it’s framed as a data centre question.
Deploy in one country and reach others on the same network, with the local metro reach to connect a data centre to enterprise clients, cloud on-ramps and other operators once you are there.
WIOCC’s international capacity lands directly at OADC and other landing stations across Africa, including Equiano at Lagos and 2Africa at Durban — low-latency routes to Europe and the Middle East with no extra cross-connect and no single-consortium dependency.
Whether it’s cluster-to-cluster traffic within a metro or linking a training site to an inference point, WIOCC’s Data Centre Interconnect carries it directly, including across borders.
Africa-to-Europe and Africa-to-Middle East are core WIOCC routes, so inference traffic does not round-trip through Europe to reach the open internet.
No lock-in to a single upstream provider. WIOCC's is open-access from the ground up, so you can add, change or multi-home as you scale.
Neoscaler bandwidth needs don’t grow in a straight line. WIOCC lights new capacity fast, without a fresh procurement cycle every time you need more
In West Africa, we deliver client connectivity into and between multiple countries through our partnerships with local operators and our strategic investment in the WACS submarine cable which lands in DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.
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With our extensive terrestrial fibre networks and metro connectivity, we interconnect key cities and major points-of-presence throughout the region and provide connectivity to international subsea cables including EASSy, SAFE, SAT3, Seacom, WACS and the Equiano (Google) and 2Africa (Meta) subsea cables connecting Africa to Europe.
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Our capability in Greater East Africa is based on cross-border integration of extensive national terrestrial fibre networks. The result is a unique hyperscale network with extensive terrestrial fibre reach and cross-border connectivity, seamlessly linked to international submarine connectivity.
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A Neoscaler, or neocloud, is a cloud infrastructure provider built specifically to deliver GPU-as-a-Service for AI and high-performance computing. Unlike general-purpose hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, Neoscalers concentrate on dense GPU clusters, high-speed interconnects and purpose-built data centres optimised for training and running large AI models.
Africa offers lower-cost power, national digital sovereignty demand, and overflow capacity for Neoscalers already active in Europe and the Middle East seeking geographic diversification. The Middle East and Africa neocloud market is forecast to grow at roughly 42 percent CAGR through 2034, from a small base.
WIOCC Group provides three things together: carrier-neutral, AI-ready data centres through OADC; pan-African subsea, terrestrial and metro connectivity through WIOCC; and open interconnection through OAfabric. Together they cover the data centre, network and interconnection requirements of an African AI deployment through a single partner.
Yes. WIOCC’s connectivity, including subsea capacity, IP transit, DCI and metro connectivity, is available on its own commercial terms, independent of any OADC colocation agreement.
A data centre provider gives you space, power and cooling in one market. WIOCC Group adds the network that connects that space to the rest of Africa and to Europe and the Middle East, plus the open interconnection to reach other networks and clouds, without requiring a separate connectivity provider in every country you operate in.
Reserved capacity with a traditional hyperscaler region can take four to ten weeks. OADC’s ready-built, carrier-neutral halls and WIOCC’s existing network footprint are designed to remove the custom-build delay that creates that wait.
At minimum: data centre to data centre connectivity for multi-site clusters, data centre to cloud connectivity for hybrid deployments, international capacity to Europe and the Middle East, and local interconnection to reach enterprise clients and other networks. WIOCC provides all four as one network.
