How many data centres are in Kenya?
DC254 currently tracks 27 data centre facilities in Kenya (19 in Nairobi, 4 in Mombasa, the rest in Konza, Limuru, Ruiru and Thika), of which 20 are operational, plus 4 verified East Africa records: Raxio Kampala UG1 (Uganda), Uganda National Data Centre (NDC1) (Uganda), Raxio Dar es Salaam TZ1 (Tanzania), Africa Data Centres Kigali KGL1 (Rwanda). The remaining 9 tracked sites are under construction, committed, or at an early stage. Every row is verified against a published source and dated, and the full dataset is free to download below.
Analysts and journalists: the full directory is free to download and cite, CSV dataset · JSON API · no signup wall. Every row carries its source and verification date, see the methodology.
Kenya's data centre supply, staged.
Capacity moves through a pipeline before it serves a single server. We stage it the way investors read it, so you can tell working infrastructure from press releases.
Live
42.9 MW
20 facilities · Built and commissioned
Under Construction
77.0 MW
3 facilities · Financed, build underway
Committed
53.0 MW
1 facility · Land or funding secured, pre-build
Early Stage
100.0 MW
3 facilities · Announced intent
Total supply
272.9 MW
31 facilities · 18 operators
How we count: Total supply is the sum of designed capacity across all four stages. Of the 42.9 MW of live capacity, 10.5 MW is verified in-service IT load; pipeline figures are developer-announced. Every facility carries its source and verification date, last verified September 2026.
Every data centre in one place.
One dataset, four views: the verified Kenyan facilities, the East African reference records, the announced capacity pipeline and the subsea cables at the coast. Every row verified and sourced, the asset that makes Data Centre 254 different.