Stratos Lab, ECOBLOX and Digital Parks Africa Partner to Launch Most Powerful African AI Cloud
Groundbreaking Collaboration Establishes a New Benchmark for Sovereign AI Compute in Africa Powered by 50+ NVIDIA B300 Servers (400+ GPUs)
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA and DUBAI, UAE — August 26, 2026 — As the global demand for high-capacity Artificial Intelligence compute accelerates, Africa stands at a pivotal threshold to establish sovereign AI capabilities with next-generation AI infrastructure. Joining forces in a landmark strategic partnership and joint deployment, Stratos Lab (a South African neocloud provider), ECOBLOX (a global innovator in AI compute infrastructure) and Digital Parks Africa (a premier South African open access, carrier neutral, data center) today officially announced the launch of Africa's most powerful AI Cloud. Delivering Exascale-performance (7.2 EFLOPS) Sovereign AI for Africa, the implementation will be powered by 50+ high-performance NVIDIA B300 HGX GPU servers (400+ GPUs) from GIGABYTE, an ECOBLOX ecosystem partner.
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. By uniting leading experts across AI infrastructure, cloud orchestration, and Tier-3+ rated colocation facilities, the partnership directly addresses Africa's most critical AI scaling bottlenecks, including power density, high-density cooling, and extended hardware lead times. Furthermore, delivering a performance of 7.2 EFLOPS enables African businesses to deploy locally, delivering lower latency and reduced operational costs across the African continent and the global market.
A Comprehensive Ecosystem for Sovereign AI
The joint deployment will deliver a full-stack, end-to-end framework purpose-built to handle complex high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise AI workloads across the region:
- Ecoblox: AI Infrastructure Solutions — Systems Integration, Modular Infrastructure & Cloud Software Stack: As an NVIDIA Preferred Partner, ECOBLOX brings industry-leading AI system integration, encompassing GPU cluster design, procurement, installation, performance optimization and MSP operations. ECOBLOX's DCIM and HPC/GPUaaS software stacks, combined with high-density, pre-fab modular infrastructure, deliver rapid turn-key deployment capabilities for cloud and enterprise AI customers.
- Stratos Lab: High-performance Compute & Ecosystem Orchestration — Leveraging deep technical competence, specialized GPU cluster management, and optimized regional logistics, Stratos Lab drives the service layer, delivering seamless neocloud platforms with BMaaS to full GPUaaS and Managed PaaS capabilities for high-performance AI applications including model training, inferencing and Agent-as-a-Service.
- Digital Parks Africa: World-Class Colocation & Power Operations — Providing the physical backbone, Digital Parks Africa delivers a robust data center footprint, highly reliable power management, and carrier-neutral facility foundation required to sustain ultra-dense AI deployments safely and continuously.
- Giga Computing (a GIGABYTE Group company) — a Taiwanese OEM providing GPU-centric server solutions for 25+ years, with the largest GPU server product portfolio worldwide and certification by AMD, Intel and NVIDIA. Known for its expertise in Tier-1 product quality, thermal and cooling design, GPU compute density scaling, and configuration flexibility, Giga Computing brings the fastest route to market with its innovations and best performance/price ratio for its partners.
"Deploying Africa's most advanced AI Cloud powered by NVIDIA B300 GPUs represents a quantum leap for regional innovation. By integrating our specialized GPUaaS orchestration and managed PaaS capabilities with world-class modular AI infrastructure, we are giving African enterprises and developers the raw, high-performance compute power needed to build world-class AI models locally." — Chris Mostert, Stratos Lab CEO
"Solving the AI scaling bottleneck requires a fundamental shift in how compute environments are deployed. As an NVIDIA Preferred Partner and NVIDIA MENA Rising Star award winner, ECOBLOX is proud to contribute our industry leading system integration capabilities, from design and deployment through operations. Together with our AI infrastructure software stack, we are establishing a rapid, scalable and sustainable foundation for sovereign AI." — Doug Makishima, ECOBLOX CEO
"Ultra-dense AI workloads demand an unyielding physical foundation, specialized power management, and pristine environmental controls. Digital Parks Africa is proud to provide the carrier-neutral, highly resilient data center facility required to sustain these 50+ NVIDIA B300 clusters, ensuring local data remains secure, accessible, and truly sovereign." — Menno Parsons, CEO, Digital Parks Africa
"Giga Computing (a GIGABYTE Group company) has always been on the frontier of high-performance GPU compute solutions development, supported by its worldwide technology ecosystem and success stories. We are in a great position to support this strategic alliance with our R&D resources, cost optimization through effective sourcing, and priority production commitment. Every bit of Stratos Lab's GPU compute power will be capitalized at absolute maximum effort." — Hsueh-Li Wang, Senior Sales Director for Middle East, Turkey & Africa at Giga Computing
About Stratos Lab
Stratos Lab is South Africa's leading AI Neocloud provider. Purpose-built as an AI Factory delivered as a service, Stratos Lab provides high-performance GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), Managed PaaS, bare-metal orchestration, and specialized HPC infrastructure for enterprise, sovereign, and research applications. By pairing powerful GPU hardware with localized, energy-efficient data center operations, Stratos Lab accelerates regional AI innovation with unmatched price-performance, radical transparency, and zero virtualization overhead. The company is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with operations in Dubai, UAE, and Istanbul, Turkey. To learn more, visit: www.stratoslab.co.za
About ECOBLOX
ECOBLOX is shaping the future of AI Compute. By deploying advanced AI infrastructure projects, the company provides critical computing resources to support enterprise, government and cloud data center contracts, driving innovation in Sovereign Artificial Intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC). Through an ecosystem of leading hardware, software, and capital partners, ECOBLOX enables organizations to deploy cost- and energy-efficient AI infrastructure at scale. ECOBLOX is an NVIDIA Preferred Partner and "NVIDIA Star Performer" 2026 award winner for Middle East and Africa. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, ECOBLOX operates globally across the Middle East, Europe, and North America. To learn more, visit: www.ecoblox.com
About Digital Parks Africa
Digital Parks Africa (DPA) is a premier, carrier-neutral wholesale and retail data center provider headquartered in South Africa. Designed to Uptime Tier III standards, DPA delivers high-availability colocation, power-dense hosting, and advanced connectivity solutions engineered for enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Backed by extensive power engineering expertise and a modular infrastructure approach, DPA provides secure, scalable, and power-efficient data center environments that empower organizations to maintain regional data sovereignty while accelerating digital transformation across the African continent. For more information, visit: www.dpa.host
About Giga Computing
Giga Computing (a GIGABYTE Group company) is a leading global provider of high-performance computing and enterprise server solutions, with a strong focus on GPU-accelerated platforms for AI, HPC, and data-intensive workloads. Building on GIGABYTE's decades of engineering expertise, Giga Computing has been developing GPU server solutions in close collaboration with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA since the early days of GPU-accelerated computing, evolving its platforms alongside successive generations of GPU technologies. The long-standing partnerships and deep understanding of GPU architecture have enabled Giga Computing to consistently deliver highly optimized, reliable, and scalable GPU server platforms — from multi-GPU systems to rack-scale AI infrastructure. Combining advanced server engineering, thermal and power technologies, and rapid product innovation, Giga Computing continues to set a high standard for GPU server performance and quality, helping enterprises, cloud service providers, data centers, and research organizations accelerate AI and HPC workloads. For more information, visit: gigabyte.com/Enterprise
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