Backbone Connectivity Network BCN, a premier wholesale open access digital service provider and Zadara, the sovereign AI cloud leader, announced a groundbreaking partnership, formally announced at the recent AfricaCom 2025 conference. Through this collaboration, BCN will launch a Zadara-powered multi-tenant Neutral AI Factory in Nigeria, empowering cloud providers across Africa to modernize their offerings by enabling provisioning of AI clouds that are high-performance, cost-effective, and resilient.
Many cloud providers across Africa are experiencing growing demand for AI services. However, most struggle to afford the large-scale infrastructure investments required to build competitive AI clouds without upfront customer commitments, while customers, in turn, are reluctant to commit before such AI clouds are operational.
To address this "chicken-and-egg" challenge, BCN is launching a Neutral AI Factory powered by Zadara's multi-tenant platform. Zadara is one of the first NVIDIA design and integration partners to enable multitenancy for high performance scalable NVIDIA AI factories by adhering to NVIDIA reference architecture for multi-tenant AI clouds.
