BCS Consultancy (BCS) has announced the opening of its new South African office, marking a major milestone in the company’s international growth strategy and strengthening its long-term presence across Africa. The new office, based in Cape Town, will open later this month, with local projects already in place.
The new opening reflects growing momentum across the African data centre market, driven by cloud adoption, enterprise digital transformation, AI workloads, increasing data sovereignty requirements and major investments in connectivity infrastructure across the continent. The new office will provide BCS with a local delivery base to support regional and international clients, whilst supplying numerous job opportunities to local communities.
The new expansion will be led by Oskar Lampe, Regional Director at BCS Consultancy, who is originally from South Africa. Oskar has relocated back to the region after nearly five years of helping to grow BCS Consultancy’s European operations, including supporting the company’s expansion across Germany and wider EMEA markets. Now leading BCS’ African expansion, he’s spearheading the establishment of the new regional office and helping to build upon the company’s long-term strategy.
South Africa is the more mature and one of the most strategically important data centre markets in Africa, with established hyperscale and colocation activity, growing cloud regions, and a strong professional services ecosystem capable of supporting large-scale digital infrastructure projects. Market forecasts estimate the South African data centre sector will grow from approximately USD $2.55bn in 2025 to USD $5.28bn by 2031.
This strategic new location for BCS will also play an important role in helping address the growing skills shortage facing the global data centre industry. By creating a local delivery hub, BCS Consultancy plans to invest in regional talent development, providing opportunities for South African professionals to build specialist expertise across project management, cost management and digital infrastructure delivery. BCS aims to help develop the next generation of mission-critical infrastructure specialists while creating long-term, high-value career opportunities within the region.
Meeting Rising Infrastructure Demand
The rise of AI workloads is already impacting the more established markets across Europe and the US, but this is also creating additional demand in this region for more sophisticated, high-density facilities requiring resilient power infrastructure, advanced cooling systems and greater operational complexity, increasing the need for specialist advisory, cost management, procurement, project and programme management expertise.
Power availability remains one of the most significant considerations for large-scale developments. While South Africa’s energy situation has improved in recent years, rapidly increasing data centre demand continues to place pressure on local grids, making power strategy, infrastructure planning and site selection increasingly critical to project viability.
Supply chain pressures and a shortage of specialist data centre delivery expertise across the region also remain significant challenges. This creates a significant opportunity for BCS to transfer international expertise into local markets, while helping to develop sustainable regional delivery capability.
Supporting the next phase of BCS expansion
The South African expansion represents the next phase of BCS Consultancy’s wider international growth strategy, following rapid expansion across Europe in recent years, including offices in Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna, Milan and Warsaw, and earlier this month, the news of its Southern European expansion into the Iberia region.
As part of its long-term strategy, BCS plans to use its South African office as a regional hub to support emerging digital infrastructure markets across Africa, including fast-growing regions such as Kenya and other key connectivity corridors.
“South Africa is a natural next step for BCS as we continue expanding our international footprint,” said Oskar Lampe, Regional Director, BCS Consultancy. “The region is entering a major acceleration phase for digital infrastructure and presents a significant long-term opportunity for both operators and investors. By establishing a local presence, we can combine our global experience with on-the-ground delivery capability to better support clients navigating increasingly complex projects across South Africa and the wider African market.”
Chris Coward, BCS Consultancy’s COO, also commented, “Africa represents one of the most important emerging growth regions for digital infrastructure. Establishing a presence in South Africa allows us to support our clients more effectively as they expand into new markets, while bringing international delivery experience and local expertise together to support increasingly complex infrastructure projects.”
