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class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#contact\">Book a tour<\/a><\/div><\/header><main id=\"top\"><!-- HERO --><div class=\"hero\"><div class=\"hero-bg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datalabs.co.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/datalabs-datacenter-hero.webp\" alt=\"Server racks inside the DataLabs datacenter in Dar es Salaam\"><\/div><div class=\"hero-grid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"hero-inner\"><span class=\"tag\"><i class=\"pulse\"><\/i> Kipawa Industrial Area &middot; Dar es Salaam<\/span><h1>Every rack watched,<br><em>one sensor at a time.<\/em><\/h1><p class=\"lede\">DataLabs runs Tanzania&#8217;s carrier-neutral colocation floor &mdash; and one of the only ones in the country that measures temperature, humidity, dust, vibration and door state <strong>per rack<\/strong>, not per room. Colocation, private VPS and disaster recovery, 12 minutes from the CBD.<\/p><div class=\"hero-cta\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#contact\">Request a quote<\/a><a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"#colocation\">See the spec sheet<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"strip\"><div><b>2016<\/b><span>Building since<\/span><\/div><div><b>45s<\/b><span>Generator cut-in<\/span><\/div><div><b>40kVA<\/b><span>Modular UPS<\/span><\/div><div><b>4<\/b><span>ISPs per rack<\/span><\/div><div><b>24\/7<\/b><span>Manned &amp; monitored<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- CLIENTS --><div class=\"clients\"><div class=\"clients-head\">Trusted with production and DR workloads by<\/div><div class=\"marquee\"><span>AIM Group<\/span><span>DNS Solutions<\/span><span>Masumin Printways<\/span><span>FiveStar<\/span><span>Mondia<\/span><span>eWallet<\/span><span>Africa&#8217;s Talking<\/span><span>Beem<\/span><span>Dun &#038; Bradstreet<\/span><span>DPO Group<\/span><span>Flutterwave<\/span><span>Echo Tanzania<\/span><span>ICB Bank<\/span><span>Letshego<\/span><span>Flashnet<\/span><span>TerraPay<\/span><span>Opes Technologies<\/span><span>Pingo<\/span><span>Mayfair Insurance<\/span><span>SmartHome<\/span><span>Faidika<\/span><span>Diamond Trust Bank<\/span><span>GTBank Tanzania<\/span><span>UNICEF<\/span><span>AIM Group<\/span><span>DNS Solutions<\/span><span>Masumin Printways<\/span><span>FiveStar<\/span><span>Mondia<\/span><span>eWallet<\/span><span>Africa&#8217;s Talking<\/span><span>Beem<\/span><span>Dun &#038; Bradstreet<\/span><span>DPO Group<\/span><span>Flutterwave<\/span><span>Echo Tanzania<\/span><span>ICB Bank<\/span><span>Letshego<\/span><span>Flashnet<\/span><span>TerraPay<\/span><span>Opes Technologies<\/span><span>Pingo<\/span><span>Mayfair Insurance<\/span><span>SmartHome<\/span><span>Faidika<\/span><span>Diamond Trust Bank<\/span><span>GTBank Tanzania<\/span><span>UNICEF<\/span><\/div><\/div><!-- COLOCATION --><section id=\"colocation\"><div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"sec-head rev\"><div class=\"eyebrow\">Colocation<\/div><h2 class=\"h2\">A datacenter you don&#8217;t have to build.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">Most businesses can&#8217;t justify the capex of a datacenter, let alone the facilities team to keep it alive. DataLabs was built in 2016 so they don&#8217;t have to. Six things your rack sits inside.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"specs\"><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Security<\/div><h3>Guarded, fenced, biometric<\/h3><ul><li><b>24\/7<\/b> manned premises, 3 guards, electric fence<\/li><li><b>Multifactor biometric<\/b> entry, fire-rated door<\/li><li>CCTV with <b>6 months<\/b> retention<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Power<\/div><h3>Two generators behind a modular UPS<\/h3><ul><li>Tanesco substation, <b>own isolated transformer<\/b><\/li><li><b>40kVA UPS<\/b>, 30 min at full load, modular<\/li><li><b>170kVA + 270kVA<\/b> gensets, auto in <b>45s<\/b><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Rack power<\/div><h3>Dual-fed, metered<\/h3><ul><li><b>2 UPS lines<\/b> into <b>2 PDUs<\/b> per rack<\/li><li>Dual-PSU equipment stays dual-fed<\/li><li>Primary <b>SmartPDU<\/b> with power monitoring<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Cooling<\/div><h3>In-row, per row of rack<\/h3><ul><li><b>Canovate in-row cooling<\/b>, each row independent<\/li><li>Higher airflow per rack, faster heat dissipation<\/li><li><b>3 comfort ACs<\/b> on standby<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Uplinks<\/div><h3>Up to four ISPs, isolated per rack<\/h3><ul><li><b>4-core fibre<\/b> per rack from the MeetMe panel<\/li><li>Own physical cable &mdash; <b>complete L1 isolation<\/b><\/li><li><b>NICTBB<\/b> in-country, <b>SEACOM &amp; EASSy<\/b> out; TIX peer<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"spec rev\"><div class=\"spec-n\">Siting &amp; safety<\/div><h3>Reachable, but out of the blast radius<\/h3><ul><li>Moderate distance from the CBD, drivable in an emergency<\/li><li>Away from <b>flood, earthquake and landslide<\/b> zones<\/li><li>Fire suppression, anti-static floor and wall finish<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><!-- TELEMETRY --><section id=\"telemetry\" class=\"telemetry\"><div class=\"wrap tel-grid\"><div class=\"rev\"><div class=\"eyebrow\">Sensors &amp; monitoring<\/div><h2 class=\"h2\">Most datacenters monitor the room. We monitor the rack.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">Room-level averages hide the rack that&#8217;s cooking. DataLabs is one of the only providers in Tanzania instrumenting environmental variables per cabinet \u2014 so a hot spot, a dust ingress or an opened door is an alert, not an autopsy.<\/p><div class=\"sensor-list\"><div><b>Temperature &amp; humidity<\/b><p>On the room and again on every individual rack.<\/p><\/div><div><b>Optical dust<\/b><p>Per-rack particulate sensing on the intake side.<\/p><\/div><div><b>Shock &amp; vibration<\/b><p>Every cabinet reports physical disturbance.<\/p><\/div><div><b>Door contact<\/b><p>Rack door opens, you get told.<\/p><\/div><div><b>Managed watch<\/b><p>We&#8217;ll monitor your rack sensors on your behalf.<\/p><\/div><div><b>NOC uplink<\/b><p>1 management Cat6 per rack into the NOC room.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p class=\"note\">Cloud-based environmental monitoring is available per rack as an add-on service.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"noc rev\"><div class=\"noc-bar\"><i class=\"pulse\"><\/i><span class=\"live\">Rack view &middot; NOC<\/span><span>Sample<\/span><\/div><div class=\"noc-scroll\"><table><thead><tr><th scope=\"col\">Rack<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Temp<\/th><th scope=\"col\">RH<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Dust<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Vib<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Door<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>RK-01<\/td><td>21.2 &deg;C<\/td><td>44%<\/td><td>0.7<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill\"><i><\/i>Closed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RK-02<\/td><td>21.6 &deg;C<\/td><td>45%<\/td><td>0.9<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill\"><i><\/i>Closed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr class=\"hot\"><td>RK-03<\/td><td>27.8 &deg;C<\/td><td>41%<\/td><td>1.1<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill w\"><i><\/i>Open 4m<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RK-04<\/td><td>21.4 &deg;C<\/td><td>44%<\/td><td>0.8<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill\"><i><\/i>Closed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RK-05<\/td><td>22.0 &deg;C<\/td><td>46%<\/td><td>0.6<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill\"><i><\/i>Closed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RK-06<\/td><td>21.9 &deg;C<\/td><td>43%<\/td><td>0.8<\/td><td>OK<\/td><td><span class=\"pill\"><i><\/i>Closed<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><div class=\"noc-foot\">RK-03 flagged: door open 4 min, intake +6.4 &deg;C above floor mean<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><!-- VPS --><section id=\"vps\"><div class=\"wrap\"><div class=\"sec-head rev\"><div class=\"eyebrow\">Private VPS hosting<\/div><h2 class=\"h2\">Your own machine, on our floor.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">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 \u2014 with data that never leaves Tanzania.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"plans\"><div class=\"plan rev\"><h3>Starter<\/h3><div class=\"cur\">TZS \/ month<\/div><div class=\"price\"><b>100,000<\/b><\/div><dl><div><dt>vCPU<\/dt><dd>2 cores<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Memory<\/dt><dd>2 GB<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Storage<\/dt><dd>100 GB SSD<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Backups<\/dt><dd>Daily<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Internet<\/dt><dd>1 Mbps dedicated<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Public IP<\/dt><dd>1 &times; IPv4<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"#contact\">Start here<\/a><\/div><div class=\"plan feature rev\"><h3>Business<\/h3><div class=\"cur\">TZS \/ month<\/div><div class=\"price\"><b>250,000<\/b><\/div><dl><div><dt>vCPU<\/dt><dd>2 cores<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Memory<\/dt><dd>4 GB<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Storage<\/dt><dd>200 GB SSD<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Backups<\/dt><dd>Daily<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Internet<\/dt><dd>1 Mbps dedicated<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Public IP<\/dt><dd>1 &times; IPv4<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#contact\">Deploy Business<\/a><\/div><div class=\"plan rev\"><h3>Enterprise<\/h3><div class=\"cur\">TZS \/ month<\/div><div class=\"price\"><b>400,000<\/b><\/div><dl><div><dt>vCPU<\/dt><dd>4 cores<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Memory<\/dt><dd>8 GB<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Storage<\/dt><dd>300 GB SSD<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Backups<\/dt><dd>Daily<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Internet<\/dt><dd>1 Mbps dedicated<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Public IP<\/dt><dd>1 &times; IPv4<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"#contact\">Talk to us<\/a><\/div><\/div><p class=\"note\">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 &mdash; talk to us and we&#8217;ll size it.<\/p><\/div><\/section><!-- CONTACT --><section id=\"contact\" class=\"contact\"><div class=\"wrap contact-grid\"><div class=\"rev\"><div class=\"eyebrow\">Get in<\/div><h2 class=\"h2\">Come and stand in the room.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">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&#8217;re planning to host and we&#8217;ll come back with a rack or VPS quote.<\/p><div class=\"addr\"><div><span class=\"k\">Datacenter<\/span><span class=\"v\">Ground Floor, Elegant Estate, Plot 28A<br>Kipawa Industrial Area, Nyerere Road<br>Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<\/span><\/div><div><span class=\"k\">Sales<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"mailto:sales@datalabs.co.tz\">sales@datalabs.co.tz<\/a><\/span><\/div><div><span class=\"k\">NOC<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"mailto:noc@datalabs.co.tz\">noc@datalabs.co.tz<\/a> &middot; staffed 24\/7<\/span><\/div><div><span class=\"k\">Services<\/span><span class=\"v\">Colocation &middot; Cohosting &middot; Managed Services<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"hero-cta\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"mailto:sales@datalabs.co.tz\">Request a quote<\/a><a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"mailto:sales@datalabs.co.tz\">Book a site tour<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"bldg rev\"><div class=\"bldg-head\">At a glance<\/div><dl class=\"glance\"><div><dt>Built<\/dt><dd>2016<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Floor<\/dt><dd>Ground, Elegant Estate<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Power<\/dt><dd>40kVA UPS &middot; 170 + 270kVA<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Cooling<\/dt><dd>Canovate in-row + 3 ACs<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Uplinks<\/dt><dd>Up to 4 ISPs per rack<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Carriers<\/dt><dd>NICTBB &middot; SEACOM &middot; EASSy<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Monitoring<\/dt><dd>Per rack, 24\/7<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Services<\/dt><dd>Colocation &middot; VPS &middot; DR<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/main><footer><div class=\"wrap foot\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"logo-d\" src=\"https:\/\/datalabs.co.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/datalabs-logo-white.webp\" alt=\"DataLabs (T) Ltd\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"logo-l\" src=\"https:\/\/datalabs.co.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/datalabs-logo.webp\" alt=\"DataLabs (T) Ltd\"><p>DataLabs (T) Ltd &middot; Colocation, Cohosting &amp; Managed Services &middot; Dar es Salaam<\/p><\/div><\/footer><script>\n(function(){\n  var io = new IntersectionObserver(function(es){\n    es.forEach(function(e){ if(e.isIntersecting){ e.target.classList.add('in'); io.unobserve(e.target); } });\n  },{threshold:.12,rootMargin:'0px 0px -40px 0px'});\n  document.querySelectorAll('.rev').forEach(function(el,i){ el.style.transitionDelay=(Math.min(i,4)*60)+'ms'; io.observe(el); });\n})();\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ColocationPer-rack telemetryPrivate VPSContact Book a tour Kipawa Industrial Area &middot; Dar es Salaam Every rack watched,one sensor at a time. 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