# 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.