Support growing workloads through flexible deployment options, from quarter racks to full racks and larger deployments, with capacity that scales alongside your business.
Reduce latency and improve user experiences by positioning applications, services, and data closer to your customers, networks and cloud platforms.
Connect efficiently to multiple carriers, internet exchanges, cloud providers, partners and customers through a single location.
Access the connectivity and digital platforms needed to support cloud migration, AI workloads, analytics and emerging technologies.
The value of colocation extends beyond infrastructure. It comes from proximity to the networks, platforms, partners and customers your business depends on.
The DRC represents one of Africa's biggest digital growth opportunities. With internet penetration still well below the continental average, demand for reliable, carrier-neutral infrastructure is accelerating as banks, cloud providers and enterprises look to establish a local presence rather than route through neighbouring countries. OADC Texaf - Kinshasa gives you a first-mover foundation in that market, Uptime Institute Tier-III certified, ISO 27001 compliant and designed to scale from an initial technical footprint to space for 550+ racks as demand grows.
Access the connectivity and ecosystem required to support cloud adoption, enterprise applications, data-intensive workloads, and digital services.
Connect directly to a growing ecosystem of carriers and service providers, improving reach, resilience, and network performance.
Deliver content and digital services closer to users, improving application performance and customer experience.
Support business-critical applications, digital banking services, public sector platforms, and data sovereignty requirements through access to secure infrastructure and vibrant connectivity ecosystems.
OADC Texaf - Kinshasa is the Democratic Republic of Congo's first live, open-access, carrier-neutral data centre, and the first in the country certified Tier-III by the Uptime Institute. Located at Silikin Village, one of Central Africa's most established digital hubs, the facility is a partnership between OADC and TEXAF, a long-term investor in the DRC's economy, built to bring international-standard connectivity and colocation to one of Africa's fastest-growing and least digitally saturated markets.
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Pricing is tailored based on your actual rack and power requirements. Speak to one of our data centre experts to get a quote.
Often, yes - particularly for predictable, steady-state workloads. Cloud pricing is built around flexibility and usage-based billing, which is valuable for variable demand, but that same model can make costs climb for workloads that run continuously at scale, since you are paying an ongoing premium for elasticity you are not using. Moving those workloads to colocated hardware shifts you to a largely fixed cost (space, power, connectivity) rather than a variable one, which can lower total cost over a multi-year horizon, especially once you factor in cloud data egress fees, which are often underestimated.
The savings are not automatic, though. They depend on your workload pattern, how efficiently your current cloud spend is optimised, and whether you factor in the capital cost of hardware plus the operational overhead of managing it yourself. Repatriation tends to make the most financial sense for stable, high-utilisation workloads, less so for spiky or unpredictable ones, where cloud's elasticity is still doing real work for you.
OADC's carrier-neutral model is well suited to a hybrid approach here: colocate the steady, cost-sensitive workloads on owned hardware while keeping direct, low-latency interconnection to cloud providers for the workloads that still benefit from cloud's flexibility, so you are not making an all-or-nothing move.
Colocation means placing your own physical servers and hardware in a secure, third-party facility. You own and manage the equipment, while the data centre provides the power, cooling, connectivity and physical security around it. Cloud hosting, by contrast, means renting virtual computing resources from a provider like AWS or Azure, with no physical hardware of your own to manage.
The two are not mutually exclusive: many organisations use colocation as a bridge to cloud, keeping mission-critical or regulated workloads on owned hardware within a carrier-neutral facility, while using that same facility's interconnection to reach cloud providers directly. OADC's carrier-neutral model supports exactly this, colocated equipment gets low-latency, private access to major cloud platforms without routing traffic over the public internet.
OADC Texaf - Kinshasa is located at Silikin Village, Avenue Colonel Mondjiba, in Kinshasa, one of Central Africa's most established digital hubs.
There is no universal answer, it depends on your workload pattern, compliance needs and how much control you want over your own hardware. Colocation makes sense when you have steady, predictable infrastructure needs, data residency or regulatory requirements that call for physical control over where your equipment sits, or existing hardware you do not want to replace. Cloud makes more sense for variable or unpredictable demand, rapid scaling or teams that want to avoid managing physical infrastructure at all.
In practice, most growing businesses in Africa do nothave to choose one exclusively. A common approach is hybrid: colocate core, steady-state systems - databases, compliance-sensitive workloads, legacy applications - in a carrier-neutral facility, while using cloud for workloads that genuinely benefit from elasticity, like seasonal traffic spikes or development environments. The deciding factor is usually whether your workload runs at a consistent, high utilisation (favours colocation) or fluctuates significantly (favours cloud).
OADC's carrier-neutral model is built for exactly this hybrid reality, colocated equipment gets direct, low-latency interconnection to major cloud platforms on-site, so choosing colocation does not mean cutting yourself off from cloud. It means putting each workload in the environment where it actually performs best.
Yes. OADC Texaf – Kinshasa is a fully carrier-neutral facility, giving equal, unrestricted access to carriers, internet exchanges, cloud platforms and service providers, so you are never locked into a single network.
OADC Texaf - Kinshasa is the Democratic Republic of Congo's first data centre certified Tier-III by the Uptime Institute, and is also ISO 27001 certified for information security management as well as ISO 22301 certified and PCI DSS compliant.
The facility spans 2,700m² in total, with 1,000m² of technical white space and a 2MVA power load, scaling to accommodate more than 550 racks as demand grows.
Yes. OADC Texaf - Kinshasa us seamlessly linked to international submarine connectivity (2Africa and WACS cable systems).
OADC Texaf - Kinshasa supports flexible deployment from quarter racks to full racks and larger dedicated deployments, with capacity that scales alongside your business.
Clients include international IT and cloud providers expanding into the DRC, for example, Lenumeric, a French IT and cloud solutions provider, colocates at the facility to support its expansion into the market, alongside networks, cloud platforms, financial institutions, enterprises and digital service providers.
As internet penetration and digital demand grow across the DRC, establishing a local, carrier-neutral presence reduces latency and reliance on international transit, giving banks, enterprises and public sector organisations faster, more resilient access to their data and applications.
Yes, you can book a tour through the OADC website to see the facility and discuss your colocation, connectivity or interconnection requirements with a data centre expert.
Yes. The facility's power density, N+1 cooling redundancy and carrier-neutral connectivity are designed to support cloud migration, AI workloads and other data-intensive applications.
International and regional providers are already colocating in Kinshasa. Lenumeric, a French IT and cloud solutions provider, chose OADC - Texaf Kinshasa to support its expansion into the DRC, citing the facility's resilience, security and scalability as key to serving the region's growing digital demand.
