Voice of the Emirates – Atlantis Technologies, under its Servernah Cloud brand, has announced the delivery and deployment of the first artificial intelligence factory powered by graphics processing units (GPUs) in East and Central Africa.
This achievement was accomplished at iXAfrica’s leading data center in Kenya, equipped with AI-neutral technology for telecom companies.
This achievement represents a “historic leap in Africa’s digital development,” marking a shift from reliance on foreign technology to digital sovereignty. This localization empowers businesses, governments, and innovators to build, train, and deploy AI models within the continent, thereby stimulating AI growth and adoption across the region by making graphics processing units (GPUs) locally available.
Infrastructure fosters African innovation
The Servernah AI-as-a-Service platform is built on the principles of Open Computing Project (OCP) design and is powered by NVIDIA graphics processing units.
In his comments, Daniel Nguguna, founder and CEO of Atlancis Technologies, said:
“This goes beyond just high-performance computing and graphics processing units; it is the very essence of the AI revolution in Africa. We are proving that world-class innovations can be designed, built, and operated from within Africa.”
This infrastructure, specifically designed to address Africa’s unique challenges, is offered as a cloud service to efficiently and sustainably accelerate high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics.
iXAfrica: The neutral incubator for artificial intelligence
The new infrastructure is hosted in the iXAfrica NBOX1 complex, East Africa’s first AI-powered ultra-capacity data center, offering a power density of up to 50 kW per rack.
Snehar Shah, CEO of iXAfrica Data Center, emphasized the importance of the move:
“At iXAfrica, we see this deployment as a crucial step in Africa’s AI infrastructure journey. Partnerships like this are our way of building the foundation for a smart, locally-driven, and globally competitive Africa.”
iXAfrica provides the optimal environment for AI workloads thanks to its green energy-based network, neutral interconnection with service providers, and Tier 3 reliability standards, ensuring low latency connectivity and 99.999% uptime.
Everse Technology also supports clients in maximizing their AI investments, from developing business case studies to training models and inferences, without the need for datasets to leave the country.
