Atlancis Technologies, operating under its Servernah Cloud brand, has announced the deployment of East and Central Africa’s first GPU-enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) factory, hosted at Kenya’s premier AI-ready, carrier-neutral data centre, iXAfrica.
This historic development signifies a major step forward in Africa’s digital transformation, shifting the continent’s reliance from foreign technology to local digital sovereignty. By providing local access to powerful GPUs, the initiative empowers enterprises, governments, and innovators across the region to develop, train, and deploy AI models within Africa’s borders, catalysing AI adoption and growth.
The new AI infrastructure stems from the burgeoning need for high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities in Africa, which has traditionally faced a scarcity of such advanced resources. Built on Open Compute Project (OCP) design principles and powered by NVIDIA GPUs, the Servernah AI-as-a-Service platform offers hyperscaler-level compute performance tailored to Africa’s unique challenges. Delivered as a cloud service, it aims to accelerate workloads in machine learning, deep learning, data analytics, and high-performance computing, providing unmatched scalability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.
Daniel Njuguna, Founder and CEO of Atlancis Technologies, highlighted the significance of this milestone, emphasising that Africa is now capable of designing, building, and powering world-class AI innovation from within the continent: “this is more than HPCs and GPUs; it’s the heart of Africa’s AI revolution.”
Michael Michie, Co-founder and CEO of Everse Technology, added that this AI-ready infrastructure is a critical first step toward unlocking Africa’s full AI potential. He noted that partnerships like this will accelerate AI adoption across various sectors, enabling rapid scaling and empowering local control over data and intelligence. Everse supports clients throughout their AI journey, from business case development to model training and inference, all while ensuring data remains within the country.
The infrastructure is hosted at iXAfrica’s NBOX1 campus, East Africa’s first hyperscale, AI-ready data centre that offers power densities of up to 50 kW per rack. With its green-powered grid, Tier 3 standards of reliability, carrier-neutral interconnectivity, and low-latency connectivity, iXAfrica provides an ideal environment for high-density AI workloads, ensuring high uptime and energy efficiency. Snehar Shah, CEO of iXAfrica Data Centre, described this deployment as a defining moment in Africa’s AI infrastructure landscape, emphasising that such partnerships lay the foundation for a future where innovation is built locally to compete globally.
This development marks the beginning of a new era where Africa is not just a user of AI technology but a creator and innovator, building solutions domestically to meet its unique needs and ambitions.
