Uganda · planned · ai training

USIO

Also known as USIO Sovereign Supercomputer; Aeonian Project Phase 1

Operated by Synectics Technologies at Karuma Hydropower Plant AI Campus .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Power: 10.00 MW
Per watt: - GF/W

Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- MDCS.AI, NVIDIA Elite Partner, named technical integration partner alongside Belgium's Automation NV	MDCS.AI	-	Reported	futureofenergy.co.ke
Accelerator	NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Accelerators NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell GPU DGX platform (planned; no GPU count disclosed)	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Reported	futureofenergy.co.ke ecofinagency.com
Power	- Schneider Electric power infrastructure partner for the Aeonian Project campus	Schneider Electric SUEPA	-	Reported	ecofinagency.com

The read

Planned as East Africa's first sovereign AI supercomputing hub: a 10 MW system named USIO (Swahili for 'infinite'), the first phase of Synectics Technologies' and Schneider Electric's wider Aeonian Project at Uganda's Karuma Hydropower Plant on the Nile, announced in September 2025. Ecofin Agency and Africa Future of Energy (both independent trade press, neither affiliated with the developer) agree USIO runs on NVIDIA's GB300 Blackwell GPU DGX platform, with MDCS.AI (an NVIDIA Elite Partner) and Belgium's Automation NV as technical partners, drawing power from a 100 MW pre-transmission allocation off Karuma's 600 MW hydropower plant and using natural river-water cooling targeting PUE below 1.2 and WUE below 1.1. Reported timelines vary by source: Ecofin Agency and others cite a first module going live in 2026 with full build-out by 2028, while Africa Future of Energy cites operations beginning in the second half of 2026 and full capacity by the second half of 2027 with modules continuing through 2028; the wider Aeonian campus is stated at 100 MW total (USIO plus six 15 MW AI-factory modules). As of the most recent reporting found, no source confirms ground has broken or that any GPUs have been delivered, so status is recorded as planned rather than under_construction, and no FLOPS, exact GPU count or exact power draw beyond the stated 10 MW target is recorded.

Timeline

2025-09-12 Announced source

Site & facility

Karuma Hydropower Plant AI Campus

Location: Karuma, Uganda
Utility: Karuma Hydropower Plant (600MW)
Cooling: Natural river water cooling
Substation: 100 MW
Commissioned: 2026

futureofenergy.co.ke ecofinagency.com

Change history

2026-09-27 Added USIO (Aeonian Project, Uganda)

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
futureofenergy.co.ke	names system and part	NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
ecofinagency.com	names system only	-

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.