Project Baobab Featured in Market Watch (Namibia): “Better solar R&D on the way” (04 Nov 2025) for solar-powered AI infrastructure

Market Watch reported on KKST’s Project Baobab as a Namibia-anchored platform where advanced solar innovation and sovereign solar-powered AI infrastructure meet. The article links Baobab to ongoing plans to explore Micro-CPV technology with NUST and Fraunhofer ISE, and describes Baobab’s purpose: demonstrating clean-powered AI compute while capturing real-time energy, performance, and emissions data in an African operating environment. It also highlights the project’s in-country data approach and the stated pilot technical concept (550 kW solar + flow-battery storage; eight AMD MI300X GPUs).

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Project Baobab is a new initiative to build Africa’s first solar-powered artificial intelligence (AI) cluster, purpose-built to transform healthcare, agriculture, and public infrastructure through sustainable, sovereign digital capacity. The cluster will be powered by a 550 kW solar array and CMBlu flow batteries. It will house eight AMD MI300X GPUs, delivering 1.5 TB of VRAM to support high-performance, high-impact AI applications across key national sectors, according to Karibu Kwetu.

On going discussions with Fraunhofer ISE

Micro-Concentrated Photovoltaic (Micro-CPV) technology uses arrays of miniaturised lenses or mirrors to focus sunlight onto tiny, high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cells. According to powerinfotoday.com, these miniature solar cells have the potential to generate far more electricity per unit area than traditional cells, while using less raw material. “In areas with intense, direct sunlight, their performance benefit is particularly large,” an August 2025 article note