The announcement lands as Datacloud Africa x ITW Africa 2026 gets underway in the same city, running 7-10 September at the Radisson Blu in Upper Hill. The event brings together an expected 1,800-plus digital infrastructure and connectivity decision-makers from more than 80 countries, with data centre development in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco, along with power availability and grid reliability for African data centres, among its core programming themes.
NBO2 sits roughly 300 metres from Nairobi One (NBO1), the carrier-neutral facility iColo opened in 2019, allowing customers to deploy workloads across separate buildings on a single campus while maintaining continuity. The facility offers access to more than 100 networks, two internet exchange points and a satellite teleport, the latter providing an additional connectivity route to locations where terrestrial infrastructure is limited.
“Digital transformation depends on infrastructure that is local, connected and globally scalable,” said Marcel Louw, managing director, Africa at Digital Realty. “With NBO2 now live, Digital Realty is strengthening Nairobi’s position as a gateway for East Africa and extending the value of PlatformDIGITAL to customers seeking resilient colocation, interconnection and hybrid IT solutions. This campus gives businesses the foundation to bring data, applications and partners closer together, whether they are serving customers in Kenya, across Africa or around the world.”
Wanja Muriithi, Country General Manager for Kenya at Digital Realty, said connecting NBO2 with NBO1 has strengthened the resilience available to customers, with the new facility adding high-density capacity for enterprises, cloud providers, networks and digital platforms.
The facility runs on 2N UPS power redundancy and N+2 cooling redundancy, with multi-layer security including 24/7 onsite personnel, biometric and photo badge access, and CCTV surveillance backed by more than 90 days of storage. NBO2 is ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certified.
The launch event was held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, cited as an example of university, industry and government partnerships contributing to Kenya’s technology ecosystem. What happens next is less settled: government guidelines on priority data centre locations are still pending, and it remains to be seen whether the Nairobi campus proceeds to a third facility and captive substation, and which cloud providers and regulated institutions ultimately take capacity in NBO2.
The move extends Digital Realty’s global PlatformDIGITAL footprint, which spans more than 300 facilities across over 55 metropolitan areas in more than 30 countries, into one of East Africa’s most closely watched digital infrastructure markets.
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