Data Centres in Kenya: The Complete List

Kenya has eight operators running commercial data centres you can actually buy space in, spread across Nairobi, Mombasa, Thika, Red Hill, Konza and Olkaria. The table below carries a couple of extra rows: one government facility that holds a certification but sells nothing, and two names that still circulate on vendor lists despite having gone quiet.

Every fact below was read off the operator’s own live website on 19 July 2026, and every Tier certification was checked against the Uptime Institute’s own award register for Kenya rather than the operator’s marketing page. Where an operator does not publish a number, this page says “not published” instead of borrowing one from a directory site. That is less tidy than a table with every cell filled in, and considerably more useful when you are about to sign a three-year contract.

Two operators’ sites blocked automated retrieval and two more publish almost nothing, so this list is deliberately uneven: every facility is here, but the amount you should trust varies by entry, and the table below says which is which rather than making you guess. Nothing has been quietly left out to keep the columns full.

Kenyans and Kenyan operators write “data centre”; the search box more often says “data center”. They are the same thing, and this page uses the local spelling except where an operator’s own name or wording is being quoted.

Every data centre in Kenya, at a glance

The Sourcing column is the important one. Operator site means the figures came from that company’s own live pages. Register only means their site blocked retrieval and the only primary source available was Uptime’s certification register. Site publishes little means the site is live but gives almost no specifications. Dormant means the company’s own web presence appears to have lapsed — the details are in names from older vendor lists.

Operator / facility	City	Published IT capacity	Uptime register status	Sourcing
iXAfrica NBOX1	Nairobi (Cabanas)	22.5 MW full site; 4.5 MW live	Not on the register	Operator site
Africa Data Centres NBO1	Nairobi (Mombasa Rd)	7.5 MW	Tier III design (as filed)	Operator site
iColo NBO1	Nairobi (Karen)	Not published	Tier III design	Operator site
PAIX NBO-1	Nairobi (Upper Hill)	Not published	Not on the register	Operator site
Telkom Kenya	Nairobi + Mombasa	Not published (4 kW/rack)	Not on the register	Operator site
iColo MBA1	Mombasa (Miritini)	13 MW campus plan	Not on the register	Operator site
iColo MBA2	Mombasa (Nyali)	Not published	Not on the register	Operator site
Safaricom Red Hill	Red Hill	Unconfirmed	Tier III design + constructed	Register only
Safaricom New Thika	Thika	Unconfirmed	Tier III design	Register only
Konza National Data Centre	Konza	Unconfirmed	Tier III design + constructed	Register only
Olkaria EcoCloud	Olkaria	Not published	Not on the register	Site publishes little
NPS Primary Data Centre	Not published	Not published	Tier III design	Register only (not commercial)
SimbaNet Kenya	—	—	Not on the register	Dormant
Internet Solutions Kenya	—	—	Not on the register	Dormant

The short version

If you want a straight answer before the detail:

• The most connected buildings in Nairobi are Africa Data Centres NBO1 and iColo NBO1, because that is where the Kenya Internet Exchange Point physically lives, alongside PAIX and iXAfrica.
• The largest by a wide margin is iXAfrica’s Cabanas campus, which publishes a 22.5 MW full-site IT capacity — an order of magnitude above anything else in the country.
• Only two facilities appear on Uptime Institute’s public register as holding Tier III certification of the constructed building: Safaricom’s Red Hill data centre and the Konza National Data Centre. Every other certified Kenyan facility on that register holds a design certification, which is a different and weaker thing. This distinction is where most published lists go wrong, and it is explained below.
• If you are landing kit in Mombasa it is almost certainly iColo, whose MBA1 and MBA2 sit near the cable landing stations.
• Two names that still circulate — SimbaNet and Internet Solutions Kenya — no longer have a working corporate web presence. If either is on a vendor list you inherited, start there.
• If you want compute in Kenya without buying hardware, colocation is the wrong tool — skip to renting instead of racking.

Read this before you read any tier claim

“Tier III” is not an adjective. It is a specific certification issued by one organisation, the Uptime Institute, and it comes in levels that operators routinely blur together in marketing copy.

There are three awards that matter, in ascending order of what they actually prove:

Tier Certification of Design Documents. Uptime reviewed the drawings. It says the design, on paper, would meet Tier III if built as drawn. It says nothing whatsoever about the building that now exists. Design certifications are also the easiest to over-claim, because the press release announcing one rarely uses the word “design” in its headline.

Tier Certification of Constructed Facility. Uptime sent people to the site, ran demonstrations against live plant, and confirmed the building has, in their words, “been constructed as designed”. This is the one that means the concrete matches the drawings — and Uptime is explicit about why the gap between the two exists, noting that “common construction phase practices and value engineering proposals can inadvertantly compromise the design intent”. Value engineering is what happens to a budget between drawing and pour. That is precisely the risk a design certification cannot speak to.

Tier Certification of Operational Sustainability. A further award covering how the facility is actually run — staffing, maintenance regimes, procedures.

A facility with a design certification and no constructed-facility certification has proven that its blueprints were sound. It has not proven that its generators start. When an operator says “Tier III certified” without a qualifier, the useful question is: certified at design, or as built? Ask for the certificate; it names which.

Then there is a fourth thing, which is not an award at all and is the most common of the lot: facilities that describe themselves as “Tier III standard”, “Tier III compliant”, or “built to Tier III”. These phrases carry no certification whatsoever. They are the operator’s own assessment of its own building. That may well be accurate — plenty of excellent facilities never bother with certification, which is expensive and slow. But it is a claim, not a finding, and it should be weighed as one.

What the Uptime register actually shows for Kenya

This is the complete list of Uptime Institute awards for Kenya, transcribed from Uptime’s own country page on 19 July 2026. Note that the register does not publish award dates, so none are given here.

Organisation	Facility	Award held	Tier
Safaricom PLC	Red Hill Data Center	Design Documents and Constructed Facility	III
Konza Technopolis Development Authority	Konza National Data Center	Design Documents and Constructed Facility	III
ICOLO LIMITED	Icolo NBO1	Design Documents only	III
Liquid Telecom Group	Africa Data Centre NBO1.1, NBO1.2, NBO1.3, Phase 1	Design Documents only	III
Safaricom PLC	New Thika Data Centre	Design Documents only	III
National Police Service	NPS Primary Data Centre	Design Documents only	III

Two things in that table are worth pausing on.

iXAfrica does not appear on it at all — and, consistently, iXAfrica makes no Tier claim anywhere on its own website either. That is an honest position, not a gap: the company sells on capacity, power density and carrier count instead. But it does mean that any list telling you iXAfrica is “Tier III certified” is inventing it.

Africa Data Centres’ own page and the Uptime register do not agree. ADC’s Nairobi page describes the facility as “4 Data halls certified Uptime Institute Tier 3 facility which is unique in East Africa”, while the entry on Uptime’s public register — filed under the group name Liquid Telecom Group — lists a design-documents certification only. There are innocent explanations: a constructed-facility award may be held under an entity name the public register does not surface, or the register may lag. This page does not resolve it, and neither should you on the strength of a web page. If Tier III as-built matters to your deployment, ask ADC for the certificate itself and read which award it names.

Nairobi

Nairobi holds the large majority of Kenya’s commercial capacity. Facilities cluster in three areas: Mombasa Road (ADC, iXAfrica), Karen (iColo), and Upper Hill (PAIX), with Safaricom’s own estate further out at Thika and Red Hill.

iXAfrica — NBOX1, Cabanas

The biggest thing in the country on published figures, and on the evidence of its own power-density specification the one Kenyan campus built with hyperscale and AI-density workloads in mind.

iXAfrica operates a campus at Cabanas, Mombasa Road, Nairobi. Its published campus specification gives a full-site IT capacity of 22.5 MW, split across two units, written on their page as “NBOX1.1: 4.5MW (Live) & NBOX1.2: 18MW”. NBOX1.1 carries 780 racks and NBOX1.2 3,744 racks. Per-rack power goes up to 40 kW, which is the figure that matters if you are placing GPU kit — most Kenyan facilities are built around a small fraction of that.

The campus sits on 17,300 sqm of land with a stated 15,587 sqm total footprint and 6,621 sqm of colocation space. Power comes in on four 11 kV and two 66 kV utility feeds backed by 2.5 MVA diesel generators with a stated 70-hour runtime. iXAfrica publishes a 1.25 PUE across the campus and describes its grid supply as 93% renewable.

On connectivity it claims an ecosystem of 18+ carrier networks, four separate meet-me rooms and four fibre entry points, and it is carrier-neutral. It hosts a KIXP node (per TESPOK, below), though iXAfrica’s own site does not mention this.

Two further sites, NBOX2 at Tilisi and NBOX3, are listed as planned, not built. NBOX2 is described as an 11-acre site around 40 km out with 53 MW+ of eventual IT load.

Not published on their site: Tier certification of any kind, ISO or PCI certifications, named carriers, ownership or investors, and the year the campus opened.

Africa Data Centres — NBO1, Sameer Business Park

The incumbent, and the address most of Kenya’s networks already terminate in.

Africa Data Centres operates NBO1 at Sameer Business Park, Block A, Mombasa Road. The facility has 7.5 MW of available site capacity and 2,000 sqm of secured server space across four floors. ADC holds ISO 27001 and describes itself as PCI DSS compliant. Along with Digital Realty’s listing for the iColo sites, that makes it one of only two operators on this page publishing named security certifications for a Kenyan facility — a genuine differentiator if you are hosting cardholder data.

Its Tier wording, verbatim, is “4 Data halls certified Uptime Institute Tier 3 facility which is unique in East Africa” — read the section above before you rely on it.

Connectivity is the real argument for NBO1: carrier networks across Kenya, long-distance fibre to Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and Somalia, and diverse routes down to the Mombasa cable landing stations. It is the primary Nairobi home of KIXP.

ADC states that it is “part of the Cassava Technologies group of companies”. You will still see it called a Liquid Telecom facility — Liquid’s own site currently describes ADC as “part of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies Group”, while ADC’s own about page names only Cassava and does not mention Liquid. The two pages disagree; ADC’s description of itself is the one to use.

Not published on their site: rack count, named carrier list, and the year built.

One naming wrinkle worth knowing if you are cross-referencing: ADC’s own page places NBO1 at Sameer Business Park, while TESPOK’s peering list gives the KIXP node’s address as Sameer Industrial Park. These refer to the same Mombasa Road location.

iColo (a Digital Realty company) — NBO1, Karen

iColo launched NBO1 in September 2019 and describes it as the first truly carrier-neutral data centre in Nairobi. It is in Karen, off LRC Road / Langata South Road — deliberately a non-commercial area with, in their words, “plenty of fibre redundancy”.

Published figures: 280 racks, 624 sqm of total customer space, 60+ connectivity providers, and 4 internet exchanges on site. Power availability is quoted at 99.999%, on 2N UPS and 2N backup generators, with minimum N+1 cooling redundancy and up to seven layers of physical security with biometric access. Dual meet-me rooms provide interconnect redundancy.

iColo’s parent Digital Realty lists both NBO1 and NBO2 at the Langata South Road / LRC Road address, giving NBO1 20,000 ft² and NBO2 11,811 ft² of total space, N+2 cooling, and PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certifications, across a Nairobi ecosystem of 60+ cloud and network providers and 70+ customers. Note that the two companies’ published figures describe the sites differently, and neither publishes an IT power figure in MW for Nairobi.

iColo NBO1 holds an Uptime Tier III design certification (see the register above). iColo’s own facility pages make no Tier claim.

A naming trap: ADC’s Nairobi facility is also called NBO1. Two different companies, two different buildings on opposite sides of the city, same code. Always pair the code with the operator.

PAIX — NBO-1, Britam Tower, Upper Hill

PAIX operates PAIX NBO-1 at Britam Tower, Hospital Road, Upper Hill — the only major Kenyan facility inside the financial district rather than on an industrial road, which is the entire point of it. If your counterparties are banks and your latency budget is measured against Upper Hill, being in the same building matters more than raw capacity.

PAIX describes it as the “best connected data centre in Nairobi – all leading network operators present”, hosts both KIXP and Nairobi-IX on site, offers direct-connect options to major cloud platforms, and holds rights to the highest telecom tower in Nairobi with clear line of sight.

Not published on their site: IT power capacity, cabinet count, white space, Tier claims of any kind, certifications, year opened, and ownership. PAIX offers a downloadable NBO-1 fact sheet; if you are shortlisting them, that is the document to request rather than trusting a third-party listing.

Telkom Kenya — Nairobi and Mombasa

Telkom Kenya runs open-access colocation from Milimani Exchange on Bishop Road, next to the NSSF Building in Nairobi, and from Mombasa Telephone House.

It publishes space for 100+ racks of up to 52U, a 4 kW dual-input per-rack power design supporting both AC and DC loads, N+1 cooling per room, main power with dual standby generator and modular A/B UPS backup, and three diverse fibre routes into the site. Security is two-factor (fingerprint and card) with boom barrier, turnstiles and internal/external CCTV, manned 24/7/365.

This is a telco exchange building doing colocation rather than a purpose-built colocation hall, and the 4 kW per-rack design tells you the workload it is sized for. For network kit, peering and caching — which is what Telkom markets it for — that is entirely appropriate. For dense compute it is not.

Not published on their site: Tier rating, certifications, and total facility capacity.

Safaricom — Thika and Red Hill

Safaricom operates one of the largest private estates in the country and sells colocation from it, but its wholesale data centre page returned HTTP 403 to every automated fetch attempt on 19 July 2026 — it loads fine in a normal browser, so that link is where to go. Nothing below is drawn from Safaricom’s own marketing.

What can be stated from a primary source is the certification, because Uptime is itself the certifying body: Safaricom’s Red Hill Data Center holds Tier III certification of both design documents and the constructed facility, and the New Thika Data Centre holds a Tier III design certification. Red Hill is therefore one of only two Kenyan facilities on Uptime’s public register holding an as-built Tier III certification.

Safaricom publishes no commercial colocation terms, per-rack power envelope, or available capacity anywhere I could reach on 19 July 2026, so this page states none of them. Those figures come from Safaricom directly, on a quote — and the certification above is the part you can check yourself.

Konza National Data Centre

The government facility at Konza Technopolis, run by the Konza Technopolis Development Authority. It holds Tier III certification of both design documents and the constructed facility per the Uptime register — one of the two as-built certifications in the country.

Beyond that certification, Konza is the thinnest-sourced entry on this page, and deliberately so. The Konza Cloud page sat behind a Cloudflare challenge I could not clear on 19 July 2026 (HTTP 403), and the dc.konza.go.ke hostname that search results point at returns no DNS record at all. Capacity, rack counts, connectivity and commercial terms are therefore unverified here — including the more basic question of whether private-sector colocation is on offer. Everything circulating online about Konza’s specifications traces back to press coverage rather than to KoTDA itself, which is a good reason to treat those numbers carefully wherever you meet them. Confirm anything that matters with KoTDA directly.

Olkaria EcoCloud

Olkaria EcoCloud is the interesting outlier: a data centre inside the Olkaria geothermal complex on a stated 100-acre site, describing itself as “powered by renewable energy from both geothermal activity and solar farms”. Other operators make renewable claims — iXAfrica puts its grid supply at 93% renewable — but EcoCloud is the only Kenyan facility whose siting is built around the generation itself.

Its Tier wording, verbatim, is “Tier III compliant infrastructure” — note compliant, which as explained above is a self-assessment and not a certification. EcoCloud does not appear on the Uptime register.

It describes itself as carrier-neutral with interconnection to other data centres and to the Mombasa cable landing station, plus a satellite station for redundancy against terrestrial fibre cuts.

Be aware that EcoCloud publishes remarkably little. No IT capacity, no rack count, no white space, no street address (the only address given is a Nairobi PO box), no named certifications, no named carriers, and no opening date. Its site uses the present tense throughout but never states when the facility opened or what is installed. This page cannot confirm from a primary source what is commercially operating there today. Treat it as a site to enquire about directly rather than one to shortlist off a web page.

National Police Service Primary Data Centre

Appears on the Uptime register with a Tier III design certification. It is government security infrastructure, not a commercial colocation facility, and is listed here only so that its presence on the Kenya certification register is not mistaken for a provider you can buy from.

Mombasa

Mombasa exists on this map for one reason: the submarine cables land there. If your traffic is heavily international, or you are a carrier terminating capacity, a Mombasa presence removes the Nairobi round trip.

iColo — MBA1, Miritini

Operational since 2017, with 580 sqm of customer space and 250 racks operational. iColo describes the full Miritini campus plan as 13 MW across 18,000 sqm and 1,800 racks — note that this is the campus roadmap, not what is built today. 80+ connectivity providers and 3 internet exchanges are on site. iColo publishes a long named-network list for MBA1 — among them Safaricom, Telkom Kenya, Liquid Telecommunications, Jamii Telecommunications, Orange, Meta, Akamai, SEACOM, Hurricane Electric, PCCW Global, BICS, China Mobile International, KENET, Poa Internet, MTN Business Kenya and MTN South Africa. For an international-transit deployment that list, rather than the rack count, is the reason to be here.

iColo — MBA2, Nyali

Launched in 2022, in Nyali — TESPOK’s peering list gives the street address as Kongoni Road, off Beach Road. Published figures: 600 customer racks, 4,000 m² total campus area, 2 data halls, 1,200 m² of IT space, and 20+ networks connected. iColo states it is 2 km to the nearest beach manhole, which is the number that matters here — it is a measure of how directly you can reach a cable landing.

Named networks at MBA2 include Access Kenya Group, Airtel Rwanda, Angani, Avitech Solutions, Fibre Link, Frontier Optical Networks, Jamii Telecommunications, Meta, MTN Global Connect Kenya, Mymanga Networks, Quick Fiber, Safaricom, SimbaNet Comm Kenya, Tandaa Networks, Telcoptics, Wananchi Group, WIOCC and Zoom Broadbands.

Not published for either Mombasa site: current IT power in MW, Tier claims, or certifications.

Telkom Kenya — Mombasa Telephone House

Covered under Telkom above; the published specifications are given for the operator rather than per site.

Who is not in Kenya

Half the value of a list like this is the names it removes. Each of these was checked against the company’s own site on 19 July 2026, because all of them appear in Kenyan data centre roundups that are simply wrong:

• Raxio — operates data centres in Angola, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya appears on their site under offices, not data centres. Raxio has a Nairobi office and no Nairobi facility. This one catches people out constantly.
• Wingu.Africa — Djibouti, Ethiopia and Tanzania. No Kenyan facility.
• Teraco — eight facilities, all in South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban). None in Kenya.
• MTN — its own operating-country list does not include Kenya. MTN entities do appear as networks inside iColo’s Mombasa sites, which is transit and peering, not a building you can rent.
• AWS — no Kenya Region or Local Zone on its global infrastructure page.
• Cloudflare — lists Nairobi and Mombasa PoPs, which are edge caching nodes inside other operators’ halls, not a Cloudflare facility you can buy space in.
• Jamii Telecommunications (Faiba) — markets no colocation product of its own; it appears as a network inside iColo’s Mombasa facilities.
• Angani — a cloud provider, not a facility owner. Its own site does not state where its hardware sits.

Names from older Kenyan vendor lists

These two are not in the “not in Kenya” category — they are Kenyan names that circulate widely in older procurement lists and directory entries, and whose corporate web presence has since lapsed. They are listed rather than quietly dropped, because if one is on a list you inherited, that is exactly what you need to know. What follows is what was observed on 19 July 2026, using dig and openssl s_client from the command line — not a judgment on either company’s legal status, which you should confirm directly.

SimbaNet Kenya. The apex domain simbanet.co.ke returns no A record at all. The www host resolves to 197.211.1.26 and redirects to webhost.simbanet.co.ke:2087, which serves a WHM (cPanel) login page — a shared-hosting control panel, not a corporate website. The TLS certificate that host presents was issued for webmail.ambeatfibreglass.com, an unrelated domain sharing the same box. In short, the corporate site is gone and the hostname now points at hosting infrastructure. SimbaNet does still appear as a peering network — “SimbaNet Comm Kenya” — on iColo’s MBA2 network list, so the ASN is live even though the web presence is not. Do not treat it as a colocation option on the strength of a directory entry; contact them directly if you need to.

Internet Solutions Kenya.is.co.ke resolves, and the certificate it presents is genuine — issued by Entrust to “Internet Solutions pty (ltd)” — but it expired on 27 February 2023, more than three years ago, and the HTTPS connection then terminates without serving a page. internetsolutions.co.ke, vodacombusiness.co.ke and vodacom.co.ke all return no A record. This page makes no claim about whether Internet Solutions ever operated a Kenyan facility of its own, because that could not be verified from any primary source in this run — only that the name should not be relied on without direct contact.

Connectivity: where KIXP actually is

For most workloads the building matters less than what it is connected to. Peering at the Kenya Internet Exchange Point keeps domestic traffic domestic instead of trombone-routing it through Europe, and it is the single biggest lever on latency for a Kenyan audience.

KIXP is operated by TESPOK, which publishes 162 members, 222 connected ports and 2.7 Tb peak traffic. Its peering points sit in these facilities:

City	Facility hosting a KIXP node
Nairobi	Africa Data Centres, Sameer Industrial Park
Nairobi	iColo NBO1, LRC Road
Nairobi	PAIX, Britam Tower, Hospital Road
Nairobi	iXAfrica, Cabanas, Mombasa Road
Mombasa	iColo MBA1, Miritini
Mombasa	iColo MBA2, Kongoni Road

KIXP’s own peering policy page lists four of these with their per-site ASNs — Nairobi AS37704 at Africa Data Center, AS37770 at iColo NBO1, AS37789 at PAIX, and Mombasa AS37786 at iColo MBA1. The TESPOK site is the fuller and more current of the two lists; the discrepancy is worth knowing about if you are configuring a session and working from the older page.

A small practical note if you go looking for KIXP yourself: kixp.or.ke resolves normally (A 196.6.220.14, AAAA 2001:43f8:7b0:10::14), but the www. variant has no record at all, so a browser that silently prefixes www. will appear to find nothing. Use the bare domain, or portal.kixp.or.ke for the peering portal.

How to actually choose

Capacity tables do not make this decision. Four questions do.

Where are your users, and where are your dependencies? If you serve Kenyan consumers, being in a KIXP-connected Nairobi facility is worth more than any Tier badge. If you are integrating with banks in Upper Hill, PAIX’s location is a real advantage. If your traffic is mostly international transit, Mombasa saves you the inland leg.

What is your per-rack power draw? This quietly eliminates most options. Telkom’s design is 4 kW per rack. iXAfrica goes to 40 kW. If you are deploying GPU or high-density compute, the shortlist is very short and iXAfrica is on it. If you are placing a couple of network appliances, almost anywhere works and you should optimise for connectivity and price instead.

What does your compliance regime actually require? Kenya’s Data Protection Act drives most data-residency conversations here, and residency is satisfied by the country, not by a tier. If you handle cardholder data, ADC’s published PCI DSS position and Digital Realty’s PCI-DSS listing are the concrete claims on the table. If you need certified as-built resilience, the register above narrows Kenya to two buildings, only one of which is straightforwardly commercial.

What will it cost, and what is the cross-connect bill? Be ready for this to be opaque. Not one Kenyan operator on this page publishes colocation pricing — every one of them quotes. Budget for the site visit and the negotiation, and get cross-connect pricing in writing early: for a colocation buyer, recurring cross-connect fees are frequently the line item that decides between two facilities, and they are never on the website. If your reason for choosing a building is connectivity, the cost of actually using that connectivity belongs in the comparison.

Are you actually buying a building? Colocation makes sense when you own hardware, have a hardware refresh strategy, need physical control for a compliance or licensing reason, or are at a scale where owning is cheaper than renting. It makes very little sense when what you actually want is a server running in Kenya next week.

Renting instead of racking

Most people who search for Kenyan data centres do not want a data centre. They want compute in Kenya — low latency to Kenyan users, data that stays in the country, and a bill they can pay in shillings without touching a forex card. Colocation is an expensive way to get that if you do not already own the hardware.

Lineserve runs a Nairobi region, ke-1a, alongside regions in Dar es Salaam (tz-1a) and Lagos (ng-1a), and sells both ends of this trade-off.

If you want a server rather than a rack, a Linux VPS in ke-1a starts at KES 1,746/month (S1: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer, 1 dedicated IPv4 — about $13.51). Mid-range, an M1 gives 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD, 3 TB transfer and 1 dedicated IPv4 for KES 4,418/month (about $34.18), and an L1 with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, 4 TB transfer and 2 dedicated IPv4s runs KES 8,675/month (about $67.11). Payment is in shillings by M-Pesa, mobile money, bank transfer or card — no foreign card and no forex conversion. If you have not stood one up before, Getting Started with Lineserve Cloud: Launch Your First VPS walks through the first launch, and Initial Ubuntu 24.04 Server Setup: Users, SSH, Firewall covers the users, SSH and firewall work that should follow it.

If you genuinely do have hardware to place, Lineserve offers colocation in a Nairobi facility:

Option	Space	Power	Monthly (retail USD)	Indicative KES
Single U	1U	1 A / 120 W	$100	KES 12,900
Quarter rack	10U	1 kW	$1,000	KES 129,000
Half rack	21U	2 kW, A+B	$2,100	KES 270,900
Full rack	42U	4 kW, A+B	$4,200	KES 541,800

Colocation is the one Lineserve product where USD is the retail anchor rather than the local currency: the shilling figures above are FX-derived and indicative, and the number confirmed on your quote is the one that counts. That is the opposite way round from the VPS pricing above, where the KES price is the real one.

Lineserve does not publicly name which Nairobi facility its colocation space sits in, and this page will not infer one — on a page that has spent four thousand words insisting operators name their buildings, a guess about our own would be worth exactly nothing. If the specific building matters to your deployment, and for carrier diversity or a compliance audit it reasonably might, ask for it on the quote.

Being straight about the trade-offs, since this page has spent several thousand words insisting on verified claims:

• The per-rack power envelopes above are what a purpose-built hyperscale hall like iXAfrica’s is designed to beat. If you are deploying dense GPU racks, that is the conversation to have, not this one.
• Lineserve’s published SLA is 99.9% uptime. Several facilities on this page quote 99.999% power availability at the facility level, which is a different measurement of a different thing — a facility power figure is not a service SLA, and comparing the two directly is apples to oranges in both directions.
• In-country latency figures from ke-1a to Kenyan networks are not published here. Measuring them from anywhere but a Kenyan vantage point would produce a number that looks authoritative and means nothing, so this page does not print one. This is flagged for measurement from the ke-1a scratch instance.

Why any of this matters commercially, rather than technically, is covered in Why Local Cloud Infrastructure Matters for African Businesses. If you are building for the Kenyan market specifically, Accepting Payments in Africa: M-Pesa, Paystack & Flutterwave deals with the payment side, and whatever you deploy on, 8 Essential Security Steps for Every Production VPS is the hardening baseline.

Ready to put compute in Nairobi?Launch a VPS in the ke-1a region — priced in shillings, paid by M-Pesa, running in Kenya. If you need a rack instead of a server, the same page will put you through to a colocation quote.

Frequently asked questions

How many data centres are there in Kenya? Published counts vary widely, because the counters count different things: some count each hall in a campus separately, some fold in enterprise and government facilities you cannot buy space in, and some still list operators that no longer trade. This page identifies eight operators running data centres in Kenya — iXAfrica, Africa Data Centres, iColo/Digital Realty, PAIX, Telkom Kenya, Safaricom, KoTDA (Konza) and Olkaria EcoCloud — across Nairobi, Mombasa, Thika, Red Hill, Konza and Olkaria, plus the National Police Service facility, which is on the certification register but is not something you can buy space in.

Six of the eight were verified directly from the operator’s own live site. Safaricom’s and Konza’s sites blocked automated retrieval, so those entries rest on the Uptime Institute register alone and are flagged for human verification. Two further names — SimbaNet and Internet Solutions Kenya — are listed separately as dormant rather than dropped, because a stale vendor list is the specific problem this page is trying to solve.

Which is the largest data centre in Kenya? iXAfrica’s Cabanas campus, on published figures — 22.5 MW of full-site IT capacity against Africa Data Centres’ 7.5 MW at NBO1, the next-largest published figure. Several operators do not publish MW at all, so this ranking covers only those that do.

Which Kenyan data centres are genuinely Tier III certified? Safaricom’s Red Hill and the Konza National Data Centre hold Uptime Institute Tier III certification of the constructed facility. iColo NBO1, Africa Data Centres’ NBO1 phase 1, Safaricom’s New Thika and the National Police Service primary facility hold Tier III certification of design documents. No other Kenyan facility appears on Uptime’s register.

Is there an AWS, Azure or Google Cloud region in Kenya? AWS publishes no Kenya region or Local Zone. Azure’s and Oracle’s region pages could not be retrieved in this run, so this page makes no claim either way about them; check their own region lists directly. Several Kenyan facilities do offer direct-connect on-ramps to major clouds, which is a different thing from a region being physically present.

Do I need to be in a data centre to serve Kenyan users well? No — you need to be in Kenya, on a network that peers well. Renting a VPS in a Kenyan region gets you the residency and the latency without a hardware purchase. Colocation is for when you own the kit or need physical control.