IXAfrica NBOX1

Operational

Cabanas, Mombasa Road, Nairobi, Kenya

IXAfrica NBOX1 is a data center in Nairobi, Kenya, operated by IXAfrica Data Centres, with 4.5 MW of published IT capacity, currently operational.

IXAfrica's purpose-built Nairobi campus on Mombasa Road, with its first building (NBOX1.1) live at 4.5 MW and a second (NBOX1.2) planned to bring the full site to 22.5 MW.

IXAfrica NBOX1 — schematic illustration — Schematic illustration based on published specifications, not a photograph · air-cooled · in operation

Operator: IXAfrica Data Centres
City: Nairobi, Kenya
Power, MW: 4.5 MW
Cooling: Air
Floor space: 6,621 m²
AI-ready: Yes

Coloprice Score

26 out of 100

Class E · #3 of 9 in Kenya

Resilience0/35
Compliance0/20
Transparency9/20
Scale10/15
Maturity7/10

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Connectivity: 44 networks and 3 internet exchanges are present in this facility. Source: PeeringDB →

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IXAfrica's NBOX1 campus sits on 4.3 acres (17,300 m² of land) along Nairobi's Mombasa Road, within the same connectivity-dense corridor as Africa Data Centres' NBO1. The campus is designed for two buildings totalling 15,587 m² of footprint and 6,621 m² of colocation space: NBOX1.1 is live with 4.5 MW of IT power, while NBOX1.2 is planned to add a further 18 MW, taking the full site to a designed 22.5 MW. Power is fed via four 11kV and two 66kV utility connections backed by 11kV diesel generators rated at 2.5MVA each with a 70-hour run time. Cooling uses an autonomous indirect adiabatic cooling (IAC) system with N+1 IAC units per data hall, an ASHRAE-compliant, low-water design suited to Nairobi's climate. IXAfrica markets the campus as AI- and hyperscale-ready, though the operator does not publish a formal third-party Uptime or TIA Tier certification for the site.