FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nairobi, Kenya — April 22 2026, — iXAfrica Data Centers, East Africa’s first hyperscale, carrier-neutral, AI-ready data center, has welcomed Gewape Cloud Group to its NBOX1 facility in Nairobi, further cementing the region’s status as a key digital infrastructure hub for enterprise cloud, AI, and interconnection growth.
Gewape Cloud Group provides sovereign cloud infrastructure for emerging markets in Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. Leveraging locally rooted operations and specialized brands, it delivers compliant, market-aligned cloud environments for regulated, mission-critical workloads. By establishing a presence at iXAfrica NBOX1, Gewape Cloud strengthens Nairobi as a core East African hub and expands its regional footprint. This partnership supports continued growth in both current and future markets. Today, Gewape Cloud’s live regions include Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, and Brazil. Upcoming expansion includes Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ghana. By choosing iXAfrica, Gewape Cloud Group will benefit from future-ready infrastructure. This choice enables it to establish its main hub in Kenya.
As cloud adoption matures, enterprises and regulated sectors seek infrastructure with local control, resilience, regulatory responsiveness, and low latency. In this context, combining Gewape Cloud’s sovereign model and iXAfrica’s carrier-neutral platform forms a strong foundation for trusted digital growth. For iXAfrica, this collaboration underscores NBOX1’s role beyond colocation. NBOX1 is a digital hub supporting cloud on-ramps, AI capacity, enterprise interconnection, and regional digital services.
“True data sovereignty goes beyond local servers; it means empowering enterprises to scale freely across regions, without being confined by a single provider or cloud location,” said Munyengabo Dushime, Managing Director of Gewape Cloud Group. “With iXAfrica’s NBOX1 facility as our latest East African Region, we are further strengthening our rapidly expanding multi-region cloud fabric”.
“Welcoming Gewape Cloud to NBOX1 reflects the growing demand for high-performance, locally relevant infrastructure. This partnership supports our mission to enable cloud, AI, and interconnection growth across East Africa” said Snehar Shah, CEO, iXAfrica Data Centers. “With rising demand for compliant cloud environments and scalable digital platforms, such partnerships are central to enterprise modernization and digital resilience in emerging markets” he further added.
Gewape has a turnkey Sovereign Stack that helps enterprises avoid major upfront CapEx, while delivering high-performance computing and multi-homed, high-speed connectivity. iXAfrica’s carrier-neutral ecosystem further amplifies our multi-cloud approach, granting clients real freedom to integrate workloads across any network they choose. They deliver operational independence, cross-border active-active resilience with sub-60-second recovery, and local pricing that shields clients from foreign-exchange risk. Gewape is putting absolute control back in the enterprise’s hands, ensuring your data remains strictly within your legal jurisdiction without compromising enterprise-grade performance or locking you into a single vendor.
Your data. Your region. Your rules.
About Gewape Cloud Group
Gewape Cloud Group provides sovereign cloud infrastructure for emerging markets in Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. Through local operations and specialized brands, it delivers compliant, governed, market-responsive cloud infrastructure for secure digital growth.
About iXAfrica Data Centers
iXAfrica Data Centre Limited in Nairobi, Kenya is East Africa’s first Hyper-scale Carrier-neutral, AI-ready Data Centre. iXAfrica’s 22.5 MW campus provides world-class and highly resilient Data Centre infrastructure to create a vital part of the internet backbone of East Africa. iXAfrica is also able to power the high-density AI workloads as high as 50 kW per rack using its free-air cooling technology. Over 90% of Kenya’s electricity is generated from renewable energy sources.
Media Contacts
iXAfrica Data Centers
Murage Gichuki
Marketing Manager
info@ixafrica.co.ke, +254 793 973 584, www.ixafrica.co.ke
Gewape Cloud Group
pr@gewapecloud.com / sales@gewapecloud.com www.gewapecloud.com
