Africloud Opens Lagos Data Centre Region And Adds Local Currency Payments Across Africa

Cloud infrastructure company, Africloud, has opened its third African data centre region in Lagos, Nigeria, and introduced local currency payment options across West, Central, East and Southern Africa.

The expansion means businesses across the continent can now run servers in Nigeria, South Africa or Portugal from a single account, and pay using the currency they earn rather than requiring US dollars or an international card.

The Lagos region is Africloud’s first in West Africa, joining existing regions in Johannesburg and Lisbon. The company is headquartered in Miami Beach.

Keeping Nigerian data in Nigeria

The Lagos region is designed to keep compute and storage workloads for Nigerian customers within the country’s borders, running under the Nigeria Data Protection Act. It also serves nearby markets including Accra, Abidjan, Lome, Douala and Ouagadougou.

Traffic from landlocked West African countries that previously had to route through European infrastructure to reach comparable cloud services can now stay on terrestrial West African fibre.

The Johannesburg region serves Southern and East Africa, with data governed under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). The Lisbon region serves North Africa and Europe, operating under EU law, and reaches Brazil over a direct subsea route.

Across the three regions, Africloud says its own continent-wide measurements place 42 of the 53 African countries measured within a round-trip latency of 70 milliseconds, covering countries home to approximately 1.28 billion people.

Addressing the payment barrier

A central part of the announcement is the introduction of local currency payments. Customers across West, Central, East and Southern Africa can now pay in their own currency, including the naira, cedi, shilling and CFA francs.

Payment methods include local cards, bank transfers, USSD and mobile money, with no international card required. Mobile money is live in twelve African countries. Cards, PayPal and more than 300 cryptocurrencies are accepted in all markets.

The move addresses what Africloud describes as a longstanding barrier to cloud adoption across the continent, where purchasing infrastructure has typically required payment in US dollars through international payment methods that many African businesses do not hold.

According to the GSMA, 74 per cent of the world’s mobile money activity by transaction count took place in Africa in 2024.

Three compromises, three answers

Founder of Africloud, Oluniyi Ajao, framed the expansion as addressing three persistent compromises African businesses have faced when purchasing cloud infrastructure: traffic that leaves the continent and comes back, payment in dollars behind a card many businesses do not hold and data sitting under another jurisdiction’s law.

“African businesses have been asked to choose between infrastructure that is close, infrastructure they can actually pay for and infrastructure that keeps their data under their own law,” Ajao explained. “Removing that choice is the reason we built this.”

“Lagos is the piece that completes the map,” he added. “A company in Accra or Abidjan now reaches West African infrastructure without leaving the region, and pays for it in the currency it earns.”

Platform specifications

All three regions run the same platform, built on AMD EPYC processors with all-NVMe storage. Every server includes IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, with new servers available in approximately two minutes. Dedicated servers are built to order across all three regions, and support is available around the clock via chat and email.

Cloud servers are available now through Africloud’s website.

Last Updated on September 23, 2026 by Nick Ross