Every rack watched,
one sensor at a time.
DataLabs runs Tanzania’s carrier-neutral colocation floor — and one of the only ones in the country that measures temperature, humidity, dust, vibration and door state per rack, not per room. Colocation, private VPS and disaster recovery, 12 minutes from the CBD.
A datacenter you don’t have to build.
Most businesses can’t justify the capex of a datacenter, let alone the facilities team to keep it alive. DataLabs was built in 2016 so they don’t have to. Six things your rack sits inside.
Guarded, fenced, biometric
- 24/7 manned premises, 3 guards, electric fence
- Multifactor biometric entry, fire-rated door
- CCTV with 6 months retention
Two generators behind a modular UPS
- Tanesco substation, own isolated transformer
- 40kVA UPS, 30 min at full load, modular
- 170kVA + 270kVA gensets, auto in 45s
Dual-fed, metered
- 2 UPS lines into 2 PDUs per rack
- Dual-PSU equipment stays dual-fed
- Primary SmartPDU with power monitoring
In-row, per row of rack
- Canovate in-row cooling, each row independent
- Higher airflow per rack, faster heat dissipation
- 3 comfort ACs on standby
Up to four ISPs, isolated per rack
- 4-core fibre per rack from the MeetMe panel
- Own physical cable — complete L1 isolation
- NICTBB in-country, SEACOM & EASSy out; TIX peer
Reachable, but out of the blast radius
- Moderate distance from the CBD, drivable in an emergency
- Away from flood, earthquake and landslide zones
- Fire suppression, anti-static floor and wall finish
Most datacenters monitor the room. We monitor the rack.
Room-level averages hide the rack that’s cooking. DataLabs is one of the only providers in Tanzania instrumenting environmental variables per cabinet — so a hot spot, a dust ingress or an opened door is an alert, not an autopsy.
On the room and again on every individual rack.
Per-rack particulate sensing on the intake side.
Every cabinet reports physical disturbance.
Rack door opens, you get told.
We’ll monitor your rack sensors on your behalf.
1 management Cat6 per rack into the NOC room.
Cloud-based environmental monitoring is available per rack as an add-on service.
| Rack | Temp | RH | Dust | Vib | Door |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RK-01 | 21.2 °C | 44% | 0.7 | OK | Closed |
| RK-02 | 21.6 °C | 45% | 0.9 | OK | Closed |
| RK-03 | 27.8 °C | 41% | 1.1 | OK | Open 4m |
| RK-04 | 21.4 °C | 44% | 0.8 | OK | Closed |
| RK-05 | 22.0 °C | 46% | 0.6 | OK | Closed |
| RK-06 | 21.9 °C | 43% | 0.8 | OK | Closed |
Your own machine, on our floor.
Not every workload needs a full cabinet. Private VPS instances run on DataLabs-owned hardware in the same room, on the same power and the same uplinks — with data that never leaves Tanzania.
Starter
- vCPU
- 2 cores
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Storage
- 100 GB SSD
- Backups
- Daily
- Internet
- 1 Mbps dedicated
- Public IP
- 1 × IPv4
Business
- vCPU
- 2 cores
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 200 GB SSD
- Backups
- Daily
- Internet
- 1 Mbps dedicated
- Public IP
- 1 × IPv4
Enterprise
- vCPU
- 4 cores
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 300 GB SSD
- Backups
- Daily
- Internet
- 1 Mbps dedicated
- Public IP
- 1 × IPv4
Every plan includes root access and runs on the same power, cooling and uplinks as the colocation floor. Prices exclude VAT. Need more cores, RAM, storage or bandwidth than the Enterprise plan — talk to us and we’ll size it.
Come and stand in the room.
Bring your IT lead, walk the floor, look at the PDUs and the sensor gateways yourself, then decide. Tours run on weekdays; tell us what you’re planning to host and we’ll come back with a rack or VPS quote.
Kipawa Industrial Area, Nyerere Road
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Built
- 2016
- Floor
- Ground, Elegant Estate
- Power
- 40kVA UPS · 170 + 270kVA
- Cooling
- Canovate in-row + 3 ACs
- Uplinks
- Up to 4 ISPs per rack
- Carriers
- NICTBB · SEACOM · EASSy
- Monitoring
- Per rack, 24/7
- Services
- Colocation · VPS · DR