RailTel Corporation of India has announced plans to establish a greenfield data centre for Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to Indian news reports, the data centre will be housed within the existing building of the Ministry in Addis Ababa. So far RailTel has not offered details about the facility's size or IT capacity, but the deal does have an approximate value of US$2.2 million. In fact, according to the Data Centre Dynamics website, RailTel is actively seeking to expand internationally, specifically looking at opportunities in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, South-East Asia and Australia. It has, of course, already been involved in a number of digital infrastructure initiatives in India, notably a collaborative effort to develop data centre projects announced in April last year.

Source: Ethiopian News January 13, 2026 17:25 UTC