Digital Realty NBO1 (Nairobi)
OperationalLangata South Road & LRC Road, Nairobi, Kenya
Digital Realty NBO1 (Nairobi) is a data center in Nairobi, Kenya, operated by Digital Realty (formerly iColo), currently operational, opened in 2019.
Nairobi's first carrier-neutral data centre, opened in September 2019 as iColo's Nairobi One and rebranded to Digital Realty in September 2026, offering 1,450 m² of technical space with N+2 cooling.
- Operator
- Digital Realty (formerly iColo)
- City
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Power, MW
- —
- Cooling
- Air
- Opened
- 2019
- Floor space
- 1,450 m²
Coloprice Score
26 out of 100
Class E · #4 of 9 in Kenya
- Resilience0/35
- Compliance9/20
- Transparency7/20
- Scale0/15
- Maturity10/10
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</a>NBO1 opened in September 2019 as iColo's Nairobi One facility, marketed at the time as the first truly carrier-neutral data centre in Nairobi and built around a 280-rack colocation floor with 624 m² of customer space, plus a satellite teleport for transmission equipment. iColo rebranded fully to Digital Realty in September 2026, alongside the launch of a second building, NBO2, on the same site. Digital Realty's current published specification for NBO1 lists 1,450 m² of space with N+2 cooling redundancy, connectivity to over 70 network and cloud providers, and PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certification, addressed on Langata South Road at its junction with LRC Road. The Nairobi campus serves as a hub for East Africa's connectivity, enterprise and financial-services customers, competing with Africa Data Centres' NBO1 and IXAfrica's newer Mombasa Road campus for the region's carrier-neutral colocation demand. Digital Realty does not publish a power capacity figure for the building.
- ▮Opened September 2019 as iColo's Nairobi One, the first carrier-neutral DC in Nairobi
- ▮Rebranded from iColo to Digital Realty in September 2026, alongside a new NBO2 building
- ▮1,450 m² of technical space, N+2 cooling, 70+ network/cloud providers
- ▮On Langata South Road, Nairobi; PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certified
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