Orange selects ENGIE for
operation and maintenance of
West Africa data centres
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NGIE, a specialist in services, distribution and equipment
manufacturing in the industrial electricity sector in West
Africa, has been selected for the operation and maintenance
of the Orange Services Group’s data centre in Abidjan, for a five-
year contract that kicked off in early June 2019.
This data centre of the latest generation, built by the Orange
Services Group (GOS), is one of the few data centres in West
Africa that meets the highest standards of security and
redundancy to ensure continuity of service in all circumstances.
It received the award of Best Data Center from Africa at the 2017
‘Datacloud Congress’ in Monaco.
The perimeter of the contract includes preventive maintenance of
the multi-technical lots of the data centre buildings, including the
electrical substations, high voltage, cooling and air conditioning,
central management technology, fire alarm systems, security and
control, video surveillance and access control.
This contract demonstrates ENGIE’s ambition to accelerate its
development in energy services in West and Central Africa and to
become one of the leaders in energy efficiency, installation and
maintenance services in Africa.
Built on the Free Zone of Grand-Bassam, located 40 km
from Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire, the
building has a floor area of 1 450 m² including a 420 m²
computer room.
This next-generation data centre has a power capacity of 1.3 MW
and a design which is oriented towards reliability and energy
optimisation of data storage.
The centre represents a strategic infrastructure for Orange in
West Africa and primarily hosts Orange’s service platforms of its
Middle East – Africa subsidiaries but it is also a colocation space
for B2B customers’ needs in this region. ◊
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