# Africa Data Centres (`africadatacentres`)

Domain: www.africadatacentres.com · Kind: operator · Priority: 2 · Enabled: yes
License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Africa Data Centres — attribution “Africa Data Centres”
Coverage: ZA, NG, KE

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) adc_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/emea.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: name, code, city, countryIso2, itCapacityMw (current), plannedPowerMw (upon completion), buildingSqm, tier, certifications.

Every field carries an extraction method in methods (e.g. json-ld:PostalAddress, regex:it_mw_v1, attr:data-value+MW, lookup:city-country) for provenance. Coordinates are only taken from JSON-LD / embedded JSON / map links published by the operator — never geocoded. Status defaults to operational unless the page uses pipeline wording (under construction / coming soon / planned).

# Discovery

Sitemaps: https://www.africadatacentres.com/post-sitemap.xml
Seeds: /capetown/, /lagos/, /midrand/, /nairobi/, /samrand-2/
Include: /(capetown|lagos|midrand|nairobi|samrand-2)/$, africadatacentres\.com/[a-z0-9-]+/$
Exclude: \?, #
Classify: /(capetown|lagos|midrand|nairobi|samrand-2)/$ → facility_pages (facility_page); africadatacentres\.com/[a-z0-9-]+/$ → newsroom (press_release)

Newsroom URLs (when configured) rely on the GenericConnector news fallback (press_release → news_event when data-center relevant).

# Schedule & fetch

Schedule: facility_pages weekly, newsroom daily, sitemap weekly
Fetch: L1→L2, 15 rpm, concurrency 2, robots.txt respected, max 20 premium credits/run. All pages are served at L1 (plain HTTP); maxLevel is capped at 2 so false-positive “blocked” heuristics (HubSpot / cookie-consent strings) never spend Scrapfly credits.

# Quirks

One page per site at the site root (/capetown/, /lagos/, /midrand/, /nairobi/, /samrand-2/) with code (CPT1), current MW, planned MW upon completion and IT space. Seeds are explicit; the facility extractor is restricted to these paths so news posts never yield facilities.

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 89 URLs (facility_pages=5, newsroom=84); sampled pages → 4 entities, 4 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.