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GPU computing infrastructure connected to electricity generation and high-capacity networks across an African landscape.
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Africa’s GPU race has begun. Power, price and sovereignty will decide who wins

Smart Africa’s first continent-wide call for GPU partners turns AI ambition into a practical test: who can supply affordable compute without trading away local control?

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