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Stratos Lab, ECOBLOX and Digital Parks Africa Launch Africa’s Most Powerful AI Cloud

This groundbreaking collaboration establishes a new benchmark for AI Clouds in Africa, de-risking infrastructure investments and positioning South Africa as the continent’s primary hub for Sovereign AI compute.

Stratos Lab launches AI cloud at Digital Parks Africa data center in South Africa

South African AI neocloud provider Stratos Lab, together with data center operator Digital Parks Africa and ECOBLOX, has announced the launch of an exascale AI cloud, said to be the most powerful in Africa with a peak performance of 7.2 EFLOPS.

Local AI cloud project puts over 400 Nvidia GPUs to work

South African cloud provider Stratos Lab, AI infrastructure company Ecoblox and data centre operator Digital Parks Africa are partnering to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) cloud infrastructure platform in South Africa, using more than 400 Nvidia graphic processing units (GPUs).

The companies announced the deployment yesterday, saying it will comprise more than 50 Nvidia B300 HGX servers supplied by Giga Computing, a Gigabyte Group company.

Nvidia’s top AI chips are coming to a Centurion data centre

South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months.

Announced on Wednesday at the Activate AI conference in Cape Town, the venture pairs Stratos Lab as cloud operator, Dubai-based integrator Ecoblox and carrier-neutral operator Digital Parks Africa (DPA) as initial host. Taiwan’s Giga Computing, a Gigabyte company, is supplying the servers.

Nvidia graphics cards and AI servers worth R798 million being installed in South African data centre

Stratos Lab, Ecoblox, and Digital Parks Africa (DPA) announced a project to install the most powerful AI cloud on the continent at DPA’s data centre in Centurion.

“The programme target is $50 million (R797.61 million) over the first two years,” Stratos CEO Chris Mostert told MyBroadband.

“That will fund the 50+ NVIDIA B300 HGX servers from Gigabyte — 400+ GPUs, 7.2 EFLOPS — plus the high-density infrastructure at DPA.”

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Telco APIs and the move from telco to tech-co | London Daily News

Traditionally, a telecommunications company focused on network infrastructure, spectrum management, and ensuring reliable communication services. They provided connectivity services—mobile, broadband, and fixed-line communications—with revenue streams largely dependent on subscriptions and usage-based models. But Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are now evolving beyond that traditional role, moving from telco to tech-co.

Ecoblox Teams Up With Tenstorrent To Fuel Ai-Driven Growth In Middle East/Africa | Quantum Zeitgeist

ECOBLOX, a leader in AI/High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center design and construction, has formed a strategic partnership with Tenstorrent, a next-generation computing company specializing in AI hardware, to support rapid growth in the Middle East and Africa region. This collaboration aims to provide businesses with access to cutting-edge AI accelerator technologies, innovative system integration, and energy-efficient modular data centers (MDCs) tailored for intensive AI workloads such as machine learning training and inference.

Ecoblox and Tenstorrent team up for AI and HPC in the Middle East | Data Center Dynamics

Modular data center firm Ecoblox and chip designer Tenstorrent have signed an agreement to help expand their AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings in the Middle East and Africa.
The companies will work together to bring AI and HPC compute capacity to the Middle East/Africa region, which is seeing increasing demand.

Video | Portable Supercomputers & AI Innovation with Donatas Varnas, COO of EcoBlox | The Web3 Talks

In this episode of The Web3 Talks, hosts Ornella Hernandez and Steven Besse sit down with Donatas Varnas, Co-Founder and COO of EcoBlox. Donatas shares insights on Nvidia’s rise as the most valuable company in the world and its implications for the chip-making industry. He also discusses EcoBlox’s mission to revolutionize high-performance computing with modular supercomputers.

Building an AGI Supercomputer | Medium (Singularitynet)

In the Technical Tuesday session, Building an AGI Supercomputer, the team from SingularityNET, including prominent figures like Janet Adams, Sergey Shalyapin, Haley Lowy, and Theo Valich, went into the ambitious and innovative efforts to create an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) supercomputer.

Metasphere Labs to develop carbon-aware routing protocol with Ecoblox and PureSky | Digital Infra Network

Metasphere Labs has entered into a definitive agreement with Ecoblox and PureSky Registry to co-develop a Carbon-Aware Routing Protocol. This protocol aims to reduce the carbon footprint of internet and data center operations by dynamically selecting network paths based on carbon intensity and managing real-time offsets.

Blockchain-based AI startup to invest in data center modules from Ecoblox | Data center dynamics