Airtel Africa, through its subsidiary Nxtra by Airtel Africa, has broken ground on what will become East Africa’s largest data centre at Tatu City, Kenya. Once fully built, the facility will have a planned capacity of 44 megawatts (MW), becoming the region's single biggest project of its kind.

• The data centre will deliver a planned capacity of 44 MW and is expected to go live in the first quarter of 2027.
• The project aims to firmly place Kenya as a trusted host for global and regional digital infrastructure, supporting next-generation cloud and AI workloads.
• This facility will dwarf existing operations, more than doubling IXAfrica’s planned NBOX1.2 capacity and far exceeding Icolo’s facilities, positioning Airtel as a serious infrastructure player.