Datacloud Africa
About the event
Nairobi conference co-located with ITW Africa on data centre and cloud infrastructure investment across Africa, aimed at operators, developers and investors in the African market.
Who it is for / why attend
For operators, energy providers and investors developing projects in Africa. The programme focuses on power, scalability and bankable projects, with a Digital Infrastructure Investment Day and an Energy Summit; it is co-located with ITW Africa.
Venue
Dates and details are compiled from official organiser sources. Check the official website for the programme, admission requirements and registration status before making plans.
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Huawei AI Data Center Reference Design
Import RD 01-21 as parametric AI-hall templates (rack kW, racks per module, module kW, redundancy of fan walls/TMUs/towers, generator and transformer counts) and as golden test cases for capacity math.
- Power distribution supports 2N, DR and BR architectures.
Open Compute Project Foundation 2026
Interface Specification Between Hyperscalers and Utility Grid for Disturbance Performance (Version 1.0.0)
For a new site, write the POI LVRT/HVRT envelope and the PFAPR requirement (90% within 2 s) as design criteria, and settle which voltage measurement (line-to-neutral or line-to-line) governs during protection coordination with the utility.
- In ERCOT NOGRR 282, cooling load is subtracted from the pre-fault load used to judge PFAPR.
FEMA 2014
FEMA P-1019, Emergency Power Systems for Critical Facilities: A Best Practices Approach to Improving Reliability (September 2014)
At critical-facility data centers, place generators, ATS, fuel tanks and pumps above the greatest of BFE + 3 ft, DFE + 1 ft and 500-year elevation + 1 ft, and prefer elevation to dry floodproofing.
- Generators over 300 kW are almost exclusively diesel-fueled.
SoSo CAD
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Evaluate equipment costs, energy expenses and total cost of ownership (TCO) using your inputs and assumptions in SoSo CAD.
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