Zimbabwe IaaS Market Size and Forecast by Offering, Deployment Model, Organization Size, Subscription Model, and End User Industry: 2019-2033

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Industry Assessment Overview

Industry Findings: The strongest country-level determinant is telco-led modernization driving sovereign compute availability; operators are investing in higher-capacity, carrier-grade facilities so enterprises can host sensitive workloads locally rather than offshore (Jun-2025). Econet’s launch of a new 5MW data centre (Jun-2025) exemplifies that shift: local firms—banks, government, and large corporates—are adopting in-country hosting for compliance and latency, which reorients procurement toward telco-integrated IaaS and managed colocation.

Industry Progression: The immediate industry progression has been the conversion of telco network upgrades into hosting capacity: Liquid Intelligent Technologies / Africa Data Centres and Econet group activity (2024–2025) have created new, lease-ready capacity and expanded managed-services offers. The net effect is an uplift in local resilience for enterprise workloads and an improved business case for domestic cloud projects that require predictable, low-latency processing.

Industry Player Insights: Among the many providers in this market, a few include Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Econet Wireless, TelOne, and Datlabs etc. Econet’s Jun-2025 5MW data-centre launch and Liquid’s ongoing regional investments show telcos and pan-African infrastructure groups converting network upgrades into onshore compute and managed hosting options; this raises the baseline for enterprise-grade services, encourages local cloud adoption, and drives competitors to add GPU and redundancy capabilities.