Built AI-Native.Built for Africa.

AFWS designs and operates sustainable data centres and cloud infrastructure, tailored for the African digital ecosystem.

PUE at full load: 1.08
Water usage effectiveness: 0.0
On-continent latency: <8ms
Max boundary noise: 41.8dB

Fibre patch panel in the AfWS facility, aqua and white optical cables terminated into an orange line card.

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

Banks of cooling fans inside the AfWS glycol loop, lit blue.

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.

Platform

05 / LAYERS

One infrastructure platform. Five integrated layers.

Software and silicon specified as one system, named, auditable, and built to be held to.

01
SteadGrid
Facility intelligence
Multi-site data-centre monitoring and management.
02
GOCLIMS
Customer and infrastructure management
Onboarding, billing, compute orchestration and infrastructure visibility.
03
PairFlex
Flexibility marketplace
Market infrastructure connecting flexible compute and energy resources.
04
IndexFlex
Transaction record
Independent, auditable transaction recording for the flexibility marketplace.
05
GO-CN48-32-2T
Sovereign compute
High-density RISC-V architecture for AI inference and cloud.

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.