Lee Lennox on how Xneelo is preparing its data centres for AI

AI infrastructure is set to reshape South Africa’s cloud and data centre market as demand grows for more compute power, GPU capacity, and efficient hosting.

Lee Lennox, Product Manager for Xneelo's Cloud and Self-Managed Hosting portfolio, explains how the company is expanding its data centre infrastructure while preparing for the next generation of cloud and AI workloads.

Lennox discusses the global hardware crunch, which has pushed some component costs sharply higher and extended server delivery times from weeks to several months. He also explains why customers are becoming more deliberate about workload placement, combining cloud, dedicated servers, and colocation to balance flexibility, cost, performance, privacy, and data sovereignty.

The conversation explores growing demand for local GPU compute, Xneelo's upcoming dedicated GPU servers, and how agentic AI could fundamentally change data centre workloads. Lennox expects always-on AI agents to increase demand for compute, storage, networking, power, and potentially liquid cooling.

0:00 Intro

1:15 Xneelo's new data centre

5:13 The global hardware crunch

7:14 Changing cloud and hosting trends

10:09 How AI is changing infrastructure demand

14:13 The future of data centres

18:34 What's next for Xneelo

21:34 Dedicated GPU servers