Africa
South Africa
5 public cloud regions are live here, from 5 providers.
- AI campuses
- None tracked
- AI supercomputers
- None listed
Cloud regions
5 providers · 6 regionsAWS
- Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1 Cape Town Live
Microsoft Azure
- South Africa North southafricanorth Johannesburg Live
- South Africa West southafricawest Cape Town Live · restricted access
Google Cloud
- Johannesburg (africa-south1) africa-south1 Johannesburg Live
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- South Africa Central (Johannesburg) af-johannesburg-1 Johannesburg Live
Huawei Cloud
- AF-Johannesburg af-south-1 Johannesburg Live
Coal made 79% of the power in South Africa
share of generation · Ember · Aug 2025 to Jul 2026South Africa World
- Gas 0% against 21% for World
- Coal 79% against 33% for World
- Other fossil 1% against 3% for World
- Nuclear 5% against 9% for World
- Wind 5% against 9% for World
- Solar 9% against 10% for World
- Hydro 1% against 14% for World
- Bio & other <1% against 2% for World
Fossil 80% (−3 pts on a year earlier) · nuclear 5% · renewables 15% · 681 g CO2e per kWh, life cycle · Aug 2025 to Jul 2026. Generation only, without imports. Every country in the registry, side by side.
Sources
Every dataset → Status → Glossary →- Ember, Monthly Electricity Data and Yearly Electricity Data, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 11 Oct 2026. Shares and intensity computed here.
- Cloud providers, Public region lists of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM Cloud, CoreWeave, Nebius, Facts from each provider’s public region list, retrieved 11 Oct 2026.
- OpenStreetMap contributors, Nominatim geocoding of cloud region cities, ODbL 1.0, retrieved 11 Oct 2026.