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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The swift global adoption of AI, alongside Africa\u2019s rapid tech growth, increasingly suggests the feasibility of an AI factory on the continent.<\/p>\n

The Aeonian Project, which is being touted as potentially being Africa\u2019s AI factory, is now set for a swift rollout, with the first phase of the deployment scheduled for the second half of next year.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Zimbabwe\u2019s richest man and the world\u2019s 10th richest man push for Africa\u2019s first AI factory<\/p>\n

At the core of the initiative, the Aeonian Project says that intends to retain critical computing power within the continent, reducing Africa\u2019s dependence on foreign entities storing its data.<\/p>\n

With its focus on AI, the project would also ensure that homegrown researchers and developers would build AI models in local languages, which would be rooted in African data, an objective that sounds all too familiar.<\/p>\n

As seen on the KenyanWallStreet, the project\u2019s central component, the USIO, a 10MW sovereign supercomputer, was built in partnership with NVIDIA, AI infrastructure company MDCS.AI, and Automation NV of Belgium.<\/p>\n

It will use 100MW of surplus pre-transmission electricity from the Karuma power plant in the East African country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the same way gold and oil once shaped economies, digital tokens will shape the next era of innovation. Africa must not just mine data, but also mint intelligence, the machine targets to support applications in healthcare, life sciences, higher education, and research,\u201d said Niels Van Rees, Co-Founder of MDCS.AI.<\/p>\n

In addition to using modular technologies to recycle heat and relying on natural river water for cooling, the plant will be connected to a new 2,500km fiber optic backbone that connects Uganda to international cables via Kenya and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Another of \u2018Africa\u2019s first AI factories\u2019 between Zimbabwe\u2019s richest man and the world\u2019s 10th richest man<\/p>\n

In July, it was reported that much like the Aeonian Project, \u201cProject Mufungi\u201d via Cassava Technologies, owned by Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe\u2019s richest man, would be partnering with Nvidia to build the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) factory in Africa.<\/p>\n

This initiative encompasses setting up Nvidia\u2019s high-performance AI processing infrastructure in Cassava\u2019s data centers across Africa.<\/p>\n

Egypt\u2019s Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria will be added after South Africa in June 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollaborating with Nvidia gives us the advanced computing capabilities needed to drive Africa\u2019s AI innovation while strengthening the continent\u2019s digital independence,\u201d Masiyiwa said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Cassava Technologies said back in April that it had intentions of investing up to $720 million in the AI plant.<\/p>\n

The objective of the project is to provide African companies, researchers, and startups with local access to cutting-edge AI power so they may create their own AI models and solutions.<\/p>\n

The Aeonian Project<\/p>\n

As per its official website, \u201cSynectics Technologies is developing The Aeonian Project, which is a hybrid Tier-4 Plus (4+) off-grid green energy regional Hyperscale Data & High-Performance Computing Centre (DHPC) powered by 100MW of excess pre-transmission electricity from the government-owned 600MW Karuma Hydro Power Plant (K-HPP) in Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

To connect the facility to the company\u2019s headquarters in Kampala, for remote surveillance, and to the submarine cable in Kenya for global connection, data is sent via two (2) core dark fiber optic cables that are leased.<\/p>\n

Data transfer between the two neighboring landlocked nations will be facilitated by the cable\u2019s alternate arm.<\/p>\n

Colocation, blockchain, data storage, artificial intelligence, and on-demand cloud services are the areas in which the suggested service provider falls. Additionally, existing data centers in the area will get Disaster Recovery Services (DRaaS) from the Center.<\/p>\n

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