Project 02 · Phase 2 Development

Sovereign Data Center

A two-site sovereign cloud — Kinshasa primary, Lubumbashi disaster-recovery. The DRC's data stays in the DRC.

Sovereign Infrastructure

The DRC's Data Must Stay in the DRC

Today, the Democratic Republic of Congo's most sensitive data — government records, financial systems, telecommunications infrastructure — is largely hosted on servers outside the country. This creates a fundamental vulnerability: the DRC does not control its own digital sovereignty.

Palm Leaf Partners is building the DRC's first Tier-IV certified data center on Congolese soil — with a second disaster-recovery site in Lubumbashi. This facility will host the national address registry, government cloud services, the call center data backbone, and enterprise systems.

Tier-IV certification means 99.995% uptime — the highest standard in the industry, with fully fault-tolerant systems and no single point of failure.

TIER IV

Fault Tolerant Certification

99.995%

Uptime SLA

2N+1

Redundancy

Sites: KIN + LUB

SOC

24/7 Operations

01 Built for sovereignty.

The DRC's most critical data — hosted on Congolese soil, under Congolese law.

The primary facility in Kinshasa is designed to Tier-IV standards — the highest in the industry. Fully redundant power, cooling, and network paths mean no single failure can take the system down. The national address registry, government cloud services, and the call center data backbone all live here. Sovereign. Secure. Permanent.

"This is not a foreign company's server farm. This is the DRC's own infrastructure — built here, governed here, serving here."

Zola · Palm Leaf Partners

02 Always watching.

A Security Operations Center that never sleeps.

Embedded within the facility is a dedicated Security Operations Center — a 24/7 command room staffed by cybersecurity professionals monitoring every system, every connection, and every threat in real time. The SOC protects not just the data center itself, but the entire Palm Leaf Partners infrastructure ecosystem — the address registry, the fiber backbone, and the call center network.

Automated threat intelligence, incident response playbooks, and compliance reporting for OHADA law and DRC government requirements run continuously — so the systems that serve the DRC are always protected.

03 Two sites. One nation.

Kinshasa primary. Lubumbashi disaster-recovery. No single point of failure for the country.

The Lubumbashi disaster-recovery site ensures that no single event — power failure, natural disaster, or infrastructure disruption — can take down the DRC's national data infrastructure. Data replicates continuously between the two sites. If Kinshasa goes dark, Lubumbashi takes over in seconds. The country never loses its map, its records, or its emergency dispatch capability.

"Two sites means the country never goes dark. That's not redundancy — that's responsibility."

Zola · Palm Leaf Partners

Inside the Build — Technical Specifications

Specification	Detail
Tier Classification	Tier IV — Fault Tolerant (Uptime Institute Standard)
Uptime Guarantee	99.995% (less than 26.3 minutes downtime per year)
Power Redundancy	2N+1 fully redundant power paths with independent UPS systems
Cooling Architecture	N+1 precision cooling with hot/cold aisle containment
Physical Security	Multi-factor biometric access, 24/7 CCTV, mantrap entry systems
Network Connectivity	Dual fiber entry points, carrier-neutral, connected to national fiber backbone
Security Operations Center	24/7 SOC with SIEM, threat intelligence, and incident response
Sites	Kinshasa (primary) · Lubumbashi (disaster recovery)
Compliance	OHADA law, DRC data sovereignty regulations, ISO 27001
Primary Hosted Systems	National Address Registry, Government Cloud, Call Center Data, Enterprise Services

The Backbone of Digital Sovereignty

The data center connects the address map, the fiber network, and the call centers into one coherent national system.

See the Fiber Backbone →