MTN Nigeria has announced that its Dabengwa data centre in Lagos has been awarded Tier-III Certification for Constructed Facility by the Uptime Institute, marking a key step in the company’s drive to strengthen cloud and digital infrastructure in Nigeria.
Opened in July as the first phase of a larger build, the facility is a prefabricated modular site assembled from 96 containerised modules, and delivers an initial 4.5 MW of IT capacity while being designed for future expansion. The centre incorporates AI-enabled energy optimisation and hybrid-cloud features targeted at enterprise customers.
A Tier-III constructed certification means the site is concurrently maintainable and built with redundant distribution paths for power and cooling so routine maintenance can occur without interrupting operations; Tier-III facilities are expected to offer about 99.982% availability (roughly 1.6 hours of downtime per year).
MTN’s leadership framed the certification as validation of the company’s investment in resilient infrastructure and its commitment to supporting Nigeria’s fast-growing digital economy. Company statements and industry coverage note that the data centre, named after Sifiso Dabengwa, sits within MTN’s broader plans to scale capacity to around 9 MW across phases and to support AI and cloud-native workloads.
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MTN Nigeria today confirmed that its Dabengwa Data Centre in Lagos has achieved Uptime Institute Tier-III Constructed Facility certification, reflecting the centre’s concurrently maintainable design and redundant power/cooling architecture. Launched in July, the modular facility, built from 96 prefabricated containers and delivering an initial 4.5 MW of IT capacity, features AI-driven energy optimisation and hybrid cloud capabilities to support enterprise customers and future AI workloads.
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MTN Nigeria’s Dabengwa data centre in Lagos is now Uptime Institute Tier-III certified. The modular site (96 prefabricated containers) delivers an initial 4.5MW and is designed for AI and hybrid-cloud workloads, a major step for Nigeria’s digital infrastructure.
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1. Tier-III Constructed Facility awarded to Dabengwa, reported by multiple outlets.
2. Tier-III meaning: concurrently maintainable; ~99.982% availability (≈1.6 hours downtime/year). (Uptime Institute / data-centre standards).
3. Facility built from 96 prefabricated containers (phase 1) and described as one of Nigeria’s largest prefabricated modular data centres.
4. Initial phase capacity: 4.5 MW; site planned to expand (reported plans for ~9 MW total across phases).
5. Features: AI-powered energy optimisation and hybrid-cloud capabilities to serve enterprise customers.
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