Kenya’s first sovereign-hosted cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) platform has been launched at the iXAfrica Data Centres (iXAfrica) campus in Nairobi.
The platform, Servernah Cloud, is designed to run AI workloads near where African data is generated. This ensures security for regulated and mission-critical operations for enterprises and governments, says iXAfrica.
The project is a partnership between Atlancis Technologies (Atlancis), Everse Technology (EverseTech), and iXAfrica.
The alliance leverages EverseTech’s AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) capabilities and iXAfrica’s carrier-neutral, AI-ready infrastructure.
Every virtual machine (VM), container, or storage service bought abroad represents a job or skill removed from the local economy, says Daniel Njuguna, CEO and co-founder of Atlancis. He adds that digital sovereignty extends beyond storing data locally; it is about retaining talent, revenue, and skills within the continent.
Servernah Cloud has been built as a resilient and scalable sovereign cloud to meet the growing demand for high-performance computing, says Paul Statham, commercial director at Atlancis.
He notes that the journey to digital sovereignty requires massive investments in people, hardware, and software.
The infrastructure transforms what is possible for businesses and allows Africa to shape its own digital destiny, says Guy Willner, chairman of iXAfrica.
The arrival of local AI compute capacity allows organisations to scale adoption without forcing sensitive workloads offshore, says Michael Michie, CEO and co-founder of EverseTech.
The launch reframes sovereign AI as a matter of economic competitiveness and digital security. This vision aligns with Atlancis’ commitment to building African cloud capacity on open foundations and EverseTech’s focus on localised AI infrastructure.
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