Though electricity availability in Nigeria may be the bane for other data centres and enterprises, but this appears not be the case with MainOne Data Centre subsidiary, MDXI. According to the General Manager of MDXI, Mr Gbenga Adegbiji, in spite of the worsening electricity supply in the country, the MDXI data centre is achieving almost 100 per cent power uptime availability, with a surmountable over 90 per cent of that power coming directly from the national grid. During an interview at the data centre recently, Adegbiji stressed that the MDXI facility was purpose-built to mitigate all challenges that global businesses may have in a Nigerian data centre. “Connecting directly to the grid provides us access to multiple power generating plants and guarantees backup in the event that one power plant goes down. This has guaranteed an increase in power availability at the data center from 50 per cent average commercial power availability to between 95 per cent and 98 per cent,” Adegbiji said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 06, 2018 01:41 UTC