Cassava And Nvidia To Launch Africa's 'first Ai Factory'

Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava Technologies is teaming up with US tech giant Nvidia - one of the world's most valuable companies - to build what it says is Africa's "first AI factory".

Cassava says it will build "a powerful and super-secure data centre facility" powered with Nvidia AI computing technology.

Cassava says it will deploy Nvidia accelerated computing and AI software using Nvidia cloud partner NCP reference architectures at its data centres in South Africa by June 2025, with expansion planned at its other data centre facilities in Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.

"This will give African businesses, governments and researchers access to cutting-edge AI computing capacity - helping them develop smarter AI products, streamline operations and stay competitive in a fast-changing world. It provides the supercomputers and software needed to train AI while keeping data within Africa's borders," the company said.

Nvidia graphics processing unit -based supercomputers will power the AI factory, enabling "faster AI model training, fine-tuning and advanced inference capabilities," Cassava added.