Adil El Youssefi

Chief Executive Officer, Africa Data Centres

Adil El Youssefi is Chief Executive Officer of Africa Data Centres, in the role since March 2025.

Africa Data Centres is the colocation data centre business of Cassava Technologies, with 30MW of capacity across three South African facilities and a fourth in design. El Youssefi moved to it from Liquid Intelligent Technologies in Kenya.

In the job

  1. Africa Data Centres said it was building an extra 20MW in South Africa and concluding design and contracting for a fourth facility, with El Youssefi working towards a first African AI factory. Source

Career before

  1. CEO, East and West Africa operations, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
  2. 2017CEO, Liquid Intelligent Technologies Kenya

Sources

  1. itweb.co.za
  2. iono.fm
  3. techcentral.co.za

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