Data centers in Gaborone: 4 facilities, colocation pricing

Coloprice tracks 4 data centers in Gaborone, Botswana: 4 operational, 0 under construction and 0 announced, run by 4 operators.

By number of facilities tracked: Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) (1), Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTC) (1), Mascom Wireless (1), Orange Botswana (1).

Facilities that publish capacity add up to 2 MW (1 of 4 sites disclose a figure); the largest published site is Orange Botswana Innovation Hub Data Center with 2 MW.

No published wholesale $/kW benchmark exists for Gaborone, Botswana yet, so we show nothing rather than an estimate. What is verifiable: the catalog tracks 4 facilities here. Run at least three quotes in parallel — where no benchmark is published, individual offers vary far more.

Commercial electricity in Gaborone, Botswana is $0.165 per kWh, and power is the largest single input into a colocation rate. On top of that sit land and grid-connection availability, interconnection density, and how much capacity competes for the same tenants — 4 facilities in our catalog, 0 of them announced or under construction.

On power alone, South Africa ($0.144/kWh) run below Gaborone, Botswana. Whether that becomes a cheaper contract depends on how much interconnection the workload needs — the comparison table shows what latency the move would cost.