Ukraine struck and partly disabled a data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex on Friday, a day after it hit a larger and more important facility, widening its attacks on Russia after Moscow targeted data hubs inside Ukraine. Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia’s AI development and is sometimes called Russia’s Google, said…
There is a sentence in Jason Goodall’s remarkable confession this week that I keep coming back to. “Our undisclosed interests were held through nominees in a structure designed to keep our names hidden,” the former Dimension Data and NTT Ltd CEO wrote, in the course of admitting that he had sat on both sides of…
The launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) is a welcome step towards strengthening the continent’s voice in how its economies are assessed. Its mandate to draw on African data, expertise and economic realities deserves support. Credit ratings have consequences far beyond financial markets. They influence investors’ decisions, access to borrowing and the interest…
Former Dimension Data Group CEO Jason Goodall Jason Goodall, the former group CEO of Dimension Data and NTT Ltd, has admitted that he secretly took part on the buying side of the 2019 sale of Dimension Data’s Johannesburg head office while advising NTT on the selling side. He has agreed to pay NTT about R208.6-million…
At the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Turkiye, SpaceX unveiled a new visualisation of its plan to put a million satellites in space to power AI data centres. Published On 7 Oct 20267 Oct 2026 Share Inside SpaceX’s new look for AI data centres in orbit on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on…
Heino Hacke, A&E manager for Africa at Axis Communications. Cape Town-based Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) has invested in a technology platform integration project to manage AI and video surveillance, access control, network infrastructure, electric vehicle charging, solar power and operational data at its Arrowgate depot. The platform forms part of a two-year rollout by…
Former Dimension Data executive chairman Jeremy Ord Four former Dimension Data executives fingered by Jason Goodall in his admission of wrongdoing over the 2019 Campus sale have hit back. They say he was not authorised to speak for them, that his statement contradicts what he said under oath and that its wording was dictated by…
South Africa’s available land could attract larger AI data centre campuses. (Image source: 123RF) South Africa is emerging as one of the markets for next-wave data centre growth in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, with the country’s availability of land potentially giving it an advantage, as established European hubs face growing constraints….
As the AI boom becomes a major part of political debate, the public backlash against data centers in the U.S. is spreading to Europe and Asia — raising risks for investors. Across the Atlantic, negative sentiment is growing in Europe, which has more at stake due to its densely populated countries and higher electricity prices,…
Bryn Davies, CEO of InfoBluePrint. Despite record investments in cloud infrastructure, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, C-suite executives across South Africa face a familiar, frustrating reality. When asking basic operational questions − such as how many active customers the business actually has, or which product line is truly most profitable − they are often met…
