Rack Centre to launch $120 Million AI-ready data center in Lagos.

Rack Centre, West Africa’s leading carrier- and cloud-neutral data center operator, will tomorrow commission its newest facility – LGS2 – in Lagos. The 12-megawatt hyperscale data center is built to meet soaring demand for digital infrastructure in Nigeria and is engineered for energy efficiency, sustainability, and next-generation workloads.

“This is a multi-million-dollar investment intentionally designed to be energy efficient, with the lowest power usage effectiveness (PUE) in the region,” said Lars Johannisson, CEO of Rack Centre, at a pre-launch briefing. “We’ve integrated a sustainable energy mix – primarily gas, with diesel backup and upcoming solar – making LGS2 the most energy-sustainable data center in West Africa.”

The facility is both AI- and cloud-ready, providing scalable capacity for enterprises, cloud providers, and hyperscalers. Its design includes built-in resilience and redundancy to ensure uptime and business continuity, even as computational demands evolve.

Johannisson emphasized Nigeria’s appeal for data center investment, citing growing internet penetration and a rapidly maturing digital economy. “There is massive growth potential here. The level of infrastructure investment we’re seeing confirms that Nigeria is ready for this scale of capacity,” he said.