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Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Africa: From GPU Access to Model Fine-Tuning
8 min read · 1,561 wordsBy Orandi Felix
Always negotiate “delivery duty paid” (DDP) terms—customs clearance in Africa can add 3-6 weeks if you’re not prepared.
LoRA fine-tuning completed in 8 hours on 4x A40s, costing ~$40 in electricity (Kenya industrial rates: $0.15/kWh). Equivalent cloud cost: ~$800 on A100 instances.
The most impactful sovereign AI deployments I’ve seen weren’t the ones with the most GPUs—they were the ones with teams who understood both their data and their hardware constraints.