KASI CLOUD
Solving Africa’ s power problem Power is one of the greatest infrastructure challenges in Nigeria – and by extension for any data centre operator working there. With an unreliable national grid, most commercial operations depend on a combination of grid supply and diesel generation. For a data centre, where uptime is of paramount importance, this is far from a secondary concern.
To overcome this issue and to build a future-proof data centre, Kasi undertook a wholesale redesign of data centre power architecture for the African context. That meant rethinking every step of the power delivery chain: from utility supply and on-site generation through to the switching systems that manage power transitions at scale, and all the way to the individual rack level.
All these practical concerns have a very human use case at the end of the process that it’ s working to solve. A merchant at a market stall completing a sale and waiting for a mobile payment to confirm, Johnson shares, is just one of the tens of millions of everyday transactions that now depend on digital infrastructure performing without interruption.
“ If I don’ t go to sleep thinking about that, the design will not be as it is,” Johnson stresses.“ There are tens of millions of such end users for any of the enterprises in Africa, especially in Nigeria.”
Kasi’ s partnership with Eaton has been central to addressing this challenge. Rather than work through intermediaries, Johnson went directly to the company’ s
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