A strategic step to support enterprise connectivity and edge-to-cloud deployment options in East Africa.
iXAfrica Data Centres is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zenlayer at Capacity Middle East (CME) in Dubai, marking the start of a collaboration focused on strengthening digital infrastructure options for customers operating in and expanding into East Africa.
As organisations accelerate cloud adoption, AI workloads, and latency-sensitive services, the region’s demand for high-performance, resilient infrastructure continues to grow. This MoU reflects a shared intent by iXAfrica and Zenlayer to explore opportunities that enhance how global and regional customers connect, deploy, and scale across key markets.
What the MoU sets out to explore
Under this MoU, iXAfrica and Zenlayer intend to collaborate around:
- Improving connectivity and interconnection options to support enterprise and platform requirements
- Deployment optionality leveraging iXAfrica’s data centre infrastructure in Nairobi and Zenlayer’s edge cloud and connectivity platform
- Supporting customer use cases such as East Africa market entry, hybrid architectures, cloud connectivity, and performance-sensitive workloads.
This collaboration is designed to support customers who need infrastructure that can meet modern requirements, speed, reliability, and scalability while enabling a clear path to growth in East Africa’s fast-evolving digital economy.
Why this matters now
Across the continent, organisations are moving from experimentation to execution—deploying cloud-native systems, expanding digital services, and building data-driven operations. The infrastructure decisions made today determine how quickly businesses can innovate tomorrow.
By deepening ecosystem partnerships like this one, iXAfrica continues to support the development of local, trusted digital capacity that helps enterprises build with confidence in the region.
We welcome conversations with cloud platforms, ISPs, systems integrators, and enterprises building in East Africa. Contact iXAfrica Data Centres to collaborate. sales@ixafrica.co.ke
About iXAfrica Data Centres:
iXAfrica Data Centres in Nairobi, Kenya is East Africa’s first Hyper-scale Carrier-neutral, AI-ready Data Centre and the latest digital habitat for cloud, colocation, and connectivity. iXAfrica provides world-class and highly resilient Data Centre infrastructure to create a vital part of the internet backbone of East Africa. With Nairobi One Campus’s overall design capacity of 22.5MW, iXAfrica has the largest data centre project in the greater East African region, serving a total population of over 300 million people. The campus is situated close to the main fiber optic communications arteries and is in close proximity to major and resilient electrical connections, capable of delivering high-availability and low-carbon power. iXAfrica is also able to power the high-density AI workloads as high as 50 kW per rack using its free-air cooling technology and over 90% of Kenya’s electricity is generated from renewable/clean energy sources.
About Zenlayer
Zenlayer is a distributed cloud for AI, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in key cities worldwide. Through distributed inference and a hyperconnected network, Zenlayer helps organisations improve AI and application performance globally—enabling faster, more reliable, and more secure digital experiences wherever workloads are deployed.
Media inquiries contact:
Murage Gichuki,
Marketing Manager,
info@ixafrica.co.ke
+254 793 973 584
www.ixafrica.co.ke,
