South Africa's Data Centre Boom: What Billions In Investment Actually Means For You
Billions are going up behind fences like this one — most people never learn what's inside. There is a security guard I used to pass on my way through Midrand who spent months standing outside a construction site behind a fence higher than most houses. I asked him once what was actually going up in there. He shrugged and said, "some kind of computer building for overseas companies." That "computer building" was almost certainly one of the data centre campuses now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and he had no idea the industry going up behind that fence was one he could realistically work in himself.