{"id":43076,"date":"2025-11-26T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=43076"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:13:52","slug":"bcn-zadara-and-touchnet-launch-africas-first-neutral-multi-tenant-ai-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/26\/bcn-zadara-and-touchnet-launch-africas-first-neutral-multi-tenant-ai-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"BCN, Zadara And Touchnet Launch Africa\u2019s First Neutral Multi-Tenant AI Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A new cloud partnership will launch Africa\u2019s first \u201cneutral multi-tenant AI factory,\u201d aiming to give cloud providers across the continent access to scalable AI infrastructure. The project is a collaboration between Backbone Connectivity Network (BCN), Zadara and Touchnet.<\/p>\n<p>The new infrastructure, built on Zadara\u2019s multi-tenant platform, will allow cloud providers to deploy and scale AI clouds without each having to build their own data-centre infrastructure. According to the partners, the initiative is designed to address the shortage of AI-ready compute and storage resources in many African markets.<\/p>\n<p>Under the collaboration:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BCN will host the neutral AI factory infrastructure in Nigeria, enabling multiple cloud providers to share common GPU and storage resources.<\/li>\n<li>Zadara provides the core multi-tenant cloud storage and compute platform, including GPU-enabled services, enabling heavy AI workloads, data analytics and model training.<\/li>\n<li>Touchnet and its partners bring cloud-service and deployment expertise, helping deliver sovereign, scalable AI infrastructure tailored to local enterprise needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The launch is being hailed as a critical step toward democratizing access to high-performance AI infrastructure in Africa, lowering the barrier to entry for startups, enterprises and service providers that lack resources to build their own data-centres.<\/p>\n<p>The neutral AI factory is expected to accelerate AI adoption across African industries by enabling local data processing, model development and AI services \u2014 while avoiding the latency, sovereignty and cost issues associated with relying exclusively on overseas cloud platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#BCN #Zadara #Touchnet #Launch #Africas #Neutral #MultiTenant #Factory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cloud partnership will launch Africa\u2019s first \u201cneutral multi-tenant AI factory,\u201d aiming to give cloud providers across the continent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[386,9285,1923,2903,9288,5049,9287,9286],"class_list":["post-43076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi","category-world","tag-africas","tag-bcn","tag-factory","tag-launch","tag-multitenant","tag-neutral","tag-touchnet","tag-zadara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43077,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43076\/revisions\/43077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}