By Prince Osuagwu

As AI adoption accelerates across Africa, organisations are looking for technology solutions that allow them to harness the power of AI without compromising data privacy, security or local regulatory requirements.

Countries that have achieved this are described as having AI sovereignty.

With several initiatives in the AI, cloud solutions and data analytics fields, Nigeria is investing heavily to be counted.
However, more than any other means, a recent deal sealed by data centre solutions provider Open Access Data Centre, OADC and data analytics company, Analytics Intelligence, AI, the route to AI sovereignty may have become shorter.
Analytics Intelligence, is a leading provider of artificial intelligence and data analytics solutions, while OADC, a WIOCC Group company, is Africa’s fastest-growing data centre, delivering an interconnected ecosystem of carrier-neutral data centres across the continent.
Both recently sealed a partnership deal
to develop sovereign AI and cloud solutions that enable African enterprises to deploy secure, scalable, and locally hosted AI infrastructure.
The partnership brings together AI’s enterprise AI platform and advanced analytics capabilities with OADC’s growing network of edge data centres across Africa.

Together, the two organisations are bringing to the market integrated NeoCloud solutions that simplify AI adoption while addressing the increasing demand for data sovereignty, regulatory compliance and high-performance infrastructure across the continent.

Central to the offering is access to high-performance compute, including AI Processing Units APUs hosted within OADC’s data centres, giving enterprises the accelerated processing power needed to train and run demanding AI workloads locally.

This collaboration is designed to address those needs by combining trusted infrastructure with enterprise-grade AI capabilities in a unified offering.

Analytics Intelligence will lead the development of industry-specific AI applications tailored to enterprise use cases. For financial institutions, this includes secure private analytics environments that support data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.

Founder and CEO of Analytics Intelligence, David Edoja, said:
“Africa’s AI future depends on more than powerful technology; it depends on infrastructure that is secure, resilient, and built for the realities of our markets.
“With OADC, we’re putting enterprise-grade AI and the compute power behind it directly into the hands of African organisations, helping them innovate with confidence while keeping their data where it belongs, on the continent and under their control.”

Ayotunde Coker, Chief Executive Officer of OADC, added:
“Our mission has always been to bring world-class digital infrastructure closer to the businesses and communities that rely on it.

“By partnering with Analytics Intelligence, we’re combining that infrastructure with advanced AI capabilities to help organisations accelerate innovation while meeting their performance, security and compliance requirements.

“The partnership represents a shared commitment to strengthening Africa’s digital economy by making sovereign AI infrastructure more accessible to businesses across the continent.
“As organisations continue to invest in AI-driven transformation, Analytics Intelligence and OADC will work together to develop solutions that support innovation while meeting the region’s evolving data residency, security, and operational requirements”, he added.

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