Fringe, a Nigerian EDGE data centre operator, has opened its first facility in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria.
This flagship facility, the Ikoyi Metro EDGE data centre, is fully operational and marks the company's debut into the West African market.
Key features of the facility include:
Capacity: 1MW of behind-the-meter capacity and 72 racks with flexible configurations.
Power: Reliable and sustainable power is a core focus, with redundant sources from an Independent Power Producer, the grid, and dual backup generators.
Connectivity: It is part of a fiber-rich ecosystem and includes subsea cable on-ramps to ensure low latency and reliable interconnection services.
Security: The facility features around the clock security and monitoring.
Fringe wants to meet the region's demand for data sovereignty, AI inference workloads, and enterprise digital services by expanding its network to five strategically located data centres in major West African cities by 2030.
“Our Edge-first strategy is not an experiment or a pilot,” Fringe said.
The company said this was a deliberate, capital-disciplined bet on distributed, power-efficient infrastructure that brought colocation, enterprise grade interconnection, AI inference and sovereign computing to the regions and industries that need it most.
It added: “This is how digital infrastructure should be built in this region."
Fringe said it was deliberately positioning multi-megawatt Edge data centres closer to demand centers, industries, and populations thereby eliminating latency constraints, reducing infrastructure fragmentation and enabling local context specific use cases tailored to African enterprises and governments.
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