Node NBO is a campus at the frontier of energy, AI and infrastructure, built to accelerate the builders shaping Africa's future.
Across the continent, renewable energy often goes to waste, on a continent that needs every kilowatt possible. Stranded hydropower, curtailed solar, and flared gas represent lost potential. Meanwhile, the global surge in AI training and inference has created an urgent need for massive compute capacity. Compute demand is going to be the driving force of Africa's energy future.
Node NBO sits at this intersection. Based in our physical campus in Nairobi, we bring together energy infrastructure operators, AI builders, and freedom tech developers. Our community operates on a shared thesis: co-locating energy and compute is the defining infrastructure opportunity of the decade.
Supported by partners like Gridless, Angani, Qbit, Fedi, Btrust, and Fireside, Node NBO is the proving ground for a new model. We are moving past the era where energy and compute are treated as separate industries — to build them as a single, integrated system.
Developing the physical compute and local talent required to scale African-led AI. The foundation for sovereign AI developed by local researchers and engineers.
Africa's energy surplus is the world's most undervalued asset. Node is the proving ground for turning stranded power into productive compute.
The physical infrastructure for Africa's Bitcoin builders. Our community spans the entire stack, from local mining operations to the bitcoin core support.
Node NBO is a network. The organizations here share infrastructure, but more importantly compound each other's work across AI, energy, and freedom tech.
An African AI lab building responsible systems, policy, and compute infrastructure.
AI consulting for large corporates — bridging enterprise needs with frontier models.
Cloud and data centre infrastructure for East Africa — local compute, local data sovereignty.
Proving offgrid renewable energy can be profitable by using bitcoin mining and AI compute.
An engineering group building the physical network layers for connectivity and power distribution in Africa.
Locate, educate, and pay open-source Bitcoin builders in the global south.
Fintech with chat and mini apps that protects privacy — powered by communities.
Promoting freedom tech in AI and financial access — programs at Node in both pillars.
Whether you're a builder, investor, researcher, or operator — Node NBO is where the future of Africa's digital infrastructure takes shape.