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28-Mar-2025

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Cassava Enhances Data Centers with NVIDIA Supercomputers to Power Africa’s AI Revolution 4 weeks ago

Cassava Technologies has announced plans to construct Africa's first AI factory, a state-of-the-art and highly secure data center facility powered by NVIDIA AI computing technology. This groundbreaking initiative will provide African businesses, governments, and researchers with access to cutting-edge AI computing capacity, enabling them to develop smarter AI products, streamline operations, and maintain competitiveness in a rapidly evolving landscape.

The AI factory will offer the supercomputers and software necessary for training AI models while ensuring that data remains within Africa's borders. Cassava intends to deploy NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software utilizing NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architectures at its data centers in South Africa by June 2025, with plans for expansion to its facilities in Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria.

Leveraging Cassava's extensive pan-African high-speed, ultra-low-latency fiber-optic network, the AI factory will deliver AI as a Service (AIaaS) through sustainable data centers designed for energy efficiency, minimizing electricity consumption for AI computing workloads. NVIDIA GPU-based supercomputers will power the AI factory, facilitating faster AI model training, fine-tuning, and advanced inference capabilities.

As the first NCP to introduce these accelerated computing platforms to Africa, Cassava aims to play a pivotal role in the continent's AI ecosystem. The Cassava AI Factory will ensure that businesses and researchers have access to the necessary AI computing power to scale operations, enhance productivity, and foster innovation.

By utilizing this secure, high-performance AI factory, African businesses and governments can develop local solutions to address regional challenges, enabling the continent to build, train, scale, and deploy AI within a secure environment that complies with both global and local regulations.

"Building digital infrastructure for the AI economy is a priority if Africa is to fully leverage the fourth industrial revolution. Our AI Factory provides the infrastructure necessary for this innovation to scale, empowering African businesses, startups, and researchers with access to cutting-edge AI infrastructure to transform their ambitious ideas into real-world breakthroughs—without needing to look beyond Africa," stated Strive Masiyiwa, Founder & Chairman of Cassava.

"Collaborating with NVIDIA equips us with the advanced computing capabilities required to drive Africa's AI innovation while reinforcing the continent's digital independence," he added.

"AI is enabling innovators to tackle our most significant challenges in agriculture, healthcare, energy, financial services, and many other sectors, creating opportunities throughout Africa," said Jaap Zuiderveld, VP EMEA at NVIDIA. "As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, Cassava is providing essential infrastructure and software to help pioneering companies and organizations accelerate AI development and foster innovation across the continent."

The establishment of Cassava's AI Factory marks a significant advancement in the company's long-standing leadership in delivering world-class digital solutions, reinforcing its broader commitment to responsible AI adoption, innovation, and productivity growth in Africa.

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