Atlancis Technologies has deployed East and Central Africa’s first GPU-powered Artificial Intelligence (AI) factory. The infrastructure, operating under the company’s Servernah Cloud brand, is hosted at iXAfrica Data Centres and is poised to end the region’s reliance on foreign technology for high-powered computing.
This milestone signals a decisive shift from dependency to digital sovereignty, enabling African enterprises, governments, and innovators to build, train, and deploy sophisticated AI models entirely within the continent’s borders. The initiative aims to supercharge regional AI adoption by making critical Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) locally accessible.
Dubbed the heart of “Africa’s AI revolution,” the Servernah AI-as-a-Service platform is built on Open Compute Project (OCP) principles and powered by NVIDIA GPUs. It delivers hyperscale computing performance tailored to address Africa’s unique challenges. Available as a cloud service, it is engineered to accelerate high-performance computing, machine learning, and data analytics with what the company calls “unmatched scalability, energy efficiency, and sustainability.”
“This is more than HPCs and GPUs; it’s the heart of Africa’s AI revolution,” said Daniel Njuguna, Founder and CEO of Atlancis Technologies. “We are proving that world-class innovation can be designed, built, and powered from within Africa.”
Industry leaders hail the development as the crucial first step in unlocking the continent’s vast digital potential.
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“AI-ready infrastructure was always going to be the first step to unlocking Africa’s AI opportunity and setting us up to take more control of the intelligence future,” said Michael Michie, Co-founder and CEO of Everse Technology, a partner supporting customers in maximizing their AI investments. “Through these partnerships, we will see adoption rapidly scale upwards in all sectors.”
The new AI factory is housed within iXAfrica’s NBOX1 campus, East Africa’s first hyperscale, AI-ready data centre. The facility offers the high-density power required for such intensive computing, with capabilities of up to 50 kW per rack. Its green-powered grid, carrier-neutral connectivity, and Tier 3 reliability standards ensure an optimal environment for AI workloads, guaranteeing 99.999% uptime.
“At iXAfrica, we see this deployment as a defining step in Africa’s AI infrastructure story,” said Snehar Shah, CEO of iXAfrica Data Centre. “Partnerships like this are how we build the foundation for Africa’s intelligent future, locally powered and globally competitive.”
