[metricodus]

No idea if any of this is true today, but here's what a quick google search found:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-planning-to-open-a-data-cent...

"Franco Austin, former Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services:

'Whilst South Africa only have a single energy provider, no. So the answer would be probably not soon, unless AWS plan to build their own energy provider, the requirements for a DC for AWS is that it has got 2 independent electricity providers on different grids. Thus I doubt if South Africa will see an AWS data center and I love to be proven wrong, at this stage I believe the best we can hope for in South Africa is a pop or edge location.'"

[sgt]

I think Eskom will remain the single energy provider in South Africa for some time, but I think this concern can be mitigated by simply generating the power yourself or via a partner company that offers local electricity directly from e.g. a solar panel farm. South Africa has sufficient solar potential.

[netzone]

But that would likely be expensive enough to make the risk not worth it.