AI-Ready Compute
Designed for AI workloads from day one.
Compliance & Certification
- Tier III-targetedPower, cooling, connectivity
- 99.982% UptimeTier-III SLA
- ISO 27001In preparation
- CBN localisationAhead of 1 Jan 2027
Our Solutions
Why AfWS
Built for buyers who verify every claim.
Seven things that separate AfWS from basic hosting; each one verifiable, none of them marketing.
01 02 Local Infrastructure
Compute in Lagos, closer to users, commercial options in naira.
03 Data Sovereignty
Data hosted in-country for organisations with sovereignty and residency requirements.
04 Resilience
Tier III-targeted power, cooling and connectivity architecture.
05 Competitive Economics
Purpose-built infrastructure designed to deliver competitive compute economics.
06 Technology Independence
Open-source architecture RISC-V compute, designed to reduce dependence on proprietary technology stacks and on infrastructure located outside Africa.
07 Scalability
Capacity that grows with demand, on a design made to be replicated across markets.
Africa cannot outsource its AI future. We must own the infrastructure that powers it. AfWS is building the rails for Africa’s AI economy.
Solutions
Sector-specific isolation and compliance, not a generic virtual machine. Every configuration ships with AI inference built in as standard.
Built for the Workloads Africa Actually Runs
- Fintech & Banking
The CBN's June 2026 circular introduces local data-management requirements for regulated payment-system participants from 1 January 2027. For banks, fintechs and payment companies, infrastructure location is now a compliance consideration. AfWS keeps payment transaction data in Lagos, on dedicated hardware.
- Supports CBN localisation from 1 January 2027
- Sub-8ms on-continent latency
- Dedicated chassis per tenant
- Government & Public Sector
Sovereign alternative to foreign cloud for federal agency inference workloads, with transparent local-currency pricing and Nigerian-jurisdiction data.
- 100% data sovereignty
- Nigerian-jurisdiction data
- FGN partnership ready
- Healthcare
Dedicated chassis isolation for medical imaging and telemedicine, with sub-8ms round-trip for Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.
- NDPR compliant
- Medical imaging optimised
- Telemedicine-grade latency
- Enterprise & Analytics
Data warehousing, batch processing, and ML pipelines with the regional latency advantage of on-continent hosting. AI inference at every tier, standard.
- AI inference built-in
- Commercial options in naira
- 117× revenue per rack
- Security & Intelligence
Hardware-boundary isolation for classified and sensitive workloads. No hypervisor, no shared tenancy, no offshore routing. Auditable down to the chassis.
- Supports CBN localisation from 1 January 2027
- Sub-8ms on-continent latency
- Dedicated chassis per tenant
- Startups & Scale-Ups
Node-level pricing that scales with the business, without the cloud bill shock that hits fast-growing African startups on hyperscaler pricing. Start with a single node; expand to a full rack without changing providers.
- 100% data sovereignty
- Nigerian-jurisdiction data
- FGN partnership ready
Infrastructure
Built AI-Native. Built for Africa
Infrastructure designed around African climate, grid conditions, and regulatory reality, not retrofitted from a Northern Virginia blueprint.
- PUE at full load
- 1.08
- Water usage effectiveness
- 0.0
- On-continent latency
- <8ms
- Max boundary noise
- 41.8dB
Open Compute Architecture
Open silicon, independent by design
AfWS runs on GO-CN48-32-2T, a high-density RISC-V compute architecture designed for AI inference and cloud. It is an open architecture that reduces dependence on proprietary technology stacks.
- AI inference built into every server as standard, not a premium tier
- Bare-metal dedicated isolation, no shared hypervisor
- Multi-tenant node, server, and rack configurations
Chiller-less Glycol Loop
Zero-water cooling
Closed-loop glycol cooling that consumes no water in the cooling cycle. It holds PUE at 1.077–1.080 under full load against a global industry average of 1.58.
Grid-flexible by Design
The opposite of the Western pattern
Western data centres increasingly compete with homes and businesses for scarce grid capacity. AfWS runs the other way round. Standby generators never run in parallel with the grid and are never the primary power source. Power comes from the SECA Power Grid, with on-site generation reserved strictly for resilience. The demand-response framework lets the facility shed load during grid stress, so AfWS supports grid stability instead of straining it. This is delivered through PairFlex, our flexibility marketplace, with IndexFlex providing independent, auditable transaction records.
Infrastructure
Six systems, engineered to be audited
Power, cooling, connectivity, redundancy, physical security, and environmental monitoring. Each specified to a number a principal engineer can hold us to.
Power
SECA Power Grid as primary source. Standby generation reserved strictly for resilience, never in parallel, never primary.
Cooling
Closed-loop glycol, zero water at any load. PUE held at 1.077–1.080 against a 1.58 global average.
Connectivity
Redundant subsea and terrestrial routes. Sub-8ms on-continent latency, so workloads and data stay home.
Redundancy
Tier III-targeted power, cooling and connectivity architecture, concurrently maintainable, with no single point of failure across power and cooling paths.
Physical Security
Tier-III physical security with biometric access control. The hardware boundary is the security boundary.
Environmental Monitoring
Continuous boundary telemetry. Verified 41.8 dB(A) maximum, under the LASEPA 45 dB(A) limit.
Gallery
Victoria Island, Under Construction
Victoria Island, Lagos. DC-1 under construction, targeting December 2026, ahead of the CBN deadline.
Facility Overview
Victoria Island waterfront site
Server Halls
Open compute architecture
Cooling Loop
Closed glycol, zero water
Power Distribution
24/7 monitored NOC
Connectivity
SECA Power Grid, resilient standby
Our Team
Led by Nigerian engineers
From the Presidency Briefing
From the Presidency BriefingAfrica's digital economy needs its own foundation. AfWS is ready to build it, with the Federal Government as partner, not patron.
Presidency BriefingAfrica Web Services · June 2026 Every major digital economy was built on infrastructure its government chose to protect. Africa's moment is now, and Nigeria can lead it.
Presidency BriefingAfrica Web Services · June 2026 Bare-metal physical isolation is not a luxury feature. For regulated financial data, it is the only architecture that satisfies the trust threshold.
Presidency BriefingAfrica Web Services · June 2026
Bare Metal Ranges
Discover the power of AfWS Bare Metal
High-performance dedicated hardware tailored for Africa’s critical workloads: fintech, government, healthcare, and AI at continental scale.
- Standard Bare Metal
Build a tailored infrastructure
Dedicated physical servers with your choice of configuration: storage, CPU density, and networking tuned to your workload. No shared tenancy. No hypervisor. Your hardware, your rules.
Starting from ₦450,000/month
AfWS Standard delivers dedicated performance and full server control at a predictable local-currency price, eliminating FX risk for Nigerian enterprises.
- Full server control: install your OS, configure at root
- Dedicated chassis, never shared
- Commercial options in naira
- Nigerian data residency by default, with payment transaction data stored and managed in Lagos
- AI Bare Metal
Sovereign AI at every tier
GPU inference built into every node as standard, not a premium tier, not an optional add-on. Sovereign AI compute, built in Lagos and designed to scale across Africa, running on GO-CN48-32-2T, a high-density RISC-V architecture.
Starting from ₦1,200,000/month
AfWS AI-Native is built for enterprises, fintechs, and government agencies running large language models, real-time inference, and data pipelines at scale.
- 117× revenue per rack vs. legacy colocation
- Open silicon, independent by design
- Bare-metal GPU, no virtualisation overhead
- Sub-8ms on-continent inference latency
- Enterprise Bare Metal
Dedicated racks, continental scale
Full rack and multi-rack configurations for regulated financial institutions, federal agencies, and large enterprise tenants. Private cloud capability with the compliance posture that Western hyperscalers cannot legally offer in Nigeria.
Custom pricing. Request a briefing
For workloads where the data never moves and the audit trail never leaves the country. DC-1 is targeting operational readiness in December 2026, ahead of the CBN deadline of 1 January 2027.
- Dedicated rack or cage, with full physical separation
- Private network fabric, not shared cloud backbone
- Tier III-targeted power, cooling and connectivity architecture
- FGN partnership-ready, Nigerian-jurisdiction
What’s shipping
Products & availability
| Product | Feature | Phase | Availability | Learn more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AfWS DC-1 | Sovereign Bare Metal | General Availability | December 2026 | Learn more |
| AI Inference Tier | GPU on every node | General Availability | December 2026 | Learn more |
| Local Currency Billing | Naira invoicing + FX lock | General Availability | December 2026 | Learn more |
| AfWS DC-2 | Lagos expansion | Public Beta | Q2 2027 | Learn more |
| Private Cloud | Dedicated rack + VPC fabric | Early Access | Q1 2027 | Learn more |
| West Africa PoP | Ghana · Côte d'Ivoire | Roadmap | 2027–2028 | Learn more |
Get in touch
Talk to the engineers building it
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