“ The power density is a different thing entirely,” Johnson explains.“ You need a different design.”

That design process was collaborative from the start. Johnson held sessions with hyperscalers – large cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – as well as with enterprise customers, asking granular questions about conduit capacity, storage facility dimensions and how their compute requirements might evolve over the next decade. The result is a facility designed not to become obsolete as AI workloads intensify.

A key feature of Kasi’ s infrastructure is the meet-me room – in this case, offering a telling illustration of the company’ s ambition. Kasi has built two redundant meet-me rooms, each the size of an entire existing data centre in Lagos, according to a senior network executive who recently toured the facility.

“ Things that people don’ t think about, we obsess over them,” Johnson continues.“ When they grow, customers can have confidence that we’ ve got their back.”

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