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Compare data centers in Groot Drakenstein →The data center listed in Groot Drakenstein is operated by BEONLINE TWENTY FOUR SEVEN INTERNET GROUP.
A city has no electricity of its own: the sites in Groot Drakenstein are connected to the national grid, itself interconnected with its neighbours. What is measured, and what decides, is therefore the country's generation mix. That grid draws 81.4% of its electricity from coal (2025). The detail: coal 81.4%, solar 8%, wind 4.7%, nuclear 4.2%, oil (fuel oil, diesel) 0.8%, hydro 0.8%. Fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) account for 82.2% of it. A kilowatt-hour there weighs 699 g of CO2, i.e. 1.5 times the world average (458 g), 2025 figure. Concretely: a 3 kVA rack, in a site with a PUE of 1.5, draws 35,478 kWh a year and therefore emits 24.8 tonnes of CO2 a year here. The same rack, same hardware, same PUE, would emit 16 tonnes on a world-average grid. The building has nothing to do with it: the country does.
Source: Ember / Energy Institute via Our World in Data, retrieved 2026-09-14. A site under a direct renewable purchase agreement may show a different balance: that is for the operator to declare.
Since 1970, 1 earthquake of magnitude 5 or above has been recorded within 100 km of Groot Drakenstein, and 1 within 200 km. The strongest: magnitude 5.7 in 1970, 72 km away. This record covers 56 years, which is short on a seismic timescale: no recorded earthquake does not mean no hazard. It does not replace the statutory zoning, which alone binds construction.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, ANSS ComCat, retrieved 2026-09-14. Measured from the site's coordinates.
With a single listed site, Groot Drakenstein cannot support a disaster-recovery plan spread over two separate buildings within the same town. A second site remains necessary, and it is found in the nearby cities listed below. No Internet exchange point is listed here: traffic will run over transit bought from a carrier, which is billed by bandwidth. No rate is published by the operators in this city: pricing is on request, and we do not estimate it on their behalf.
The nearest site outside Groot Drakenstein is 34 km away, in Strand. Short distances matter: they drive the cost of a link between two buildings, and whether a backup site is workable.