Helios Investment to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Datacenter and IXAfrica Data Centre.

Helios Investment, a private equity investment firm, agreed to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Datacenter, a carrier neutral data centre in Morocco, and IXAfrica Data Centre, a developer and operator of hyperscale-ready data centres in Kenya. Financial terms were not disclosed. “The acquisition of MDC as a key building block in Helios’ broader Moroccan hyperscale DC platform, and the strategic investment in IXAfrica are aligned with our criterion of making investments that have the potential to integrate climate-sensitive solutions into our value creation plans. In both Morocco and Kenya, the delivery of essential infrastructure that is critical to economic growth can be done in manner that is climate-sensitive; from focusing on low-carbon sources of power, to lower intensity consumption of resources, these data centre investments have potential to be blueprints for digital infrastructure’s part in reducing carbon intensity on the continent," Babatunde Soyoye, Helios Investment Co-Founder and Managing Partner.