Node NBO is a campus at the frontier of energy, AI, bitcoin and infrastructure, setup to accelerate the builders shaping Africa's future.
Joined March 2026
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NodeNBO retweeted
Jun 8
Ethiopia🇪🇹's USD 2.8 Billion Koysha Dam Will Add 2,200MW to the Grid. With GERD and Gibe III, Ethiopia Is Becoming Africa's Largest Electricity Exporter. uchumi360.com/r/a/ethiopia-u…
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Jun 3
Over the past few weeks I have had the pleasure of interacting with brothers and sisters from all over Africa building solutions for the motherland.
@ianktoo is one of them.
He has built Crea - an emergency response application. But he didn't stop there, he took it one step further by building tafsiri - a pipeline that scores every output for trust, not just fluency. Because in an emergency, a wrong translation can cost more than no translation at all.
That he chose Babel as the engine behind that work is an honour. But what moves me more is the instinct - a builder already asking the hardest question there is: can this be trusted with a life?
This is exactly why we built @DarajaAI. A bridge is only worth building if people cross it. Ian crossed it, and built something of his own on the other side.
Impressive work!
github.com/ianktoo/tafsiri
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NodeNBO retweeted
Jun 2
.@satyanadella just put the whole "water" debate to rest.
Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant!
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Our monthly “general” AI meetup and our AI Freedom are both tomorrow 4-7pm.
Come, bring your projects, examples, and questions!
nodenbo.com/event?id=1776439…
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For those in our AI Agents meetup yesterday.
Microsoft Senior AI developer just showed how they build AI agents with Claude at Microsoft.
34-minutes. free. By Microsoft team
Opus 4.7 1,400 pre-built MCP tools
plug Claude into agent → give it tools → ship to production
worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course.
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NodeNBO retweeted
May 25
Nairobi!! Are you ready?⚡️
May 25
JUST IN 🦒: sam of soapbox to speak at bitcoin Nairobi, open source edtion this coming June 17-19, 2026
~~Nostr, an open source database?~~
Join us 👉 btcpp.dev/nairobi#tickets
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We have our meetup at Node at 5pm today on AI agents, come by and see what others have built and show what you've done as well.
nodenbo.com/event?id=1778352…
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NodeNBO retweeted
Kenya still has low electrified economies.
However the strongest long-term electrification drivers in Kenya are likely to be:
1. electric cooking;- especially due to depleted forests and increased knowledge of environmental protection.
2. electric mobility; technology will reduce the cost of EVs.
3. industrial growth,
4. digital infrastructure/data centres,
5. renewable energy expansion and falling prices of Solar/Wind/BESS technologies
Greater opportunity to have an electrified economy
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NodeNBO retweeted
May 22
Come for the safaris, beaches, mountain climbing, great food and the friendliest people ever. But stay for the community merging energy, compute and intelligence processing @NodeNBO
NEW: 🇰🇪 Node NBO Opens in Nairobi — Africa’s Newest Bitcoin, Energy & Compute Hub Signals Explosive Growth for Bitcoin in Africa.
Read More: bitcoinnews.africa/node-nbo-…
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Good stuff from the @AiKenya1 team.
We are live at the Blockchain Centre NBO for the Kenya Ai Challenge 2026 pre-hackathon workshop.
Today, builders are taking their first deep dive into Neo4j and graph databases as they prepare for the June hackathon. The focus is on how connected data and AI can be applied to better understand the complex systems shaping smallholder agriculture in Kenya.
In collaboration with Mercy Corps AgriFin , DirectEd Development , Neo4j , and Lovable , this workshop is creating space for practical learning, experimentation, and collaboration ahead of the challenge.
We are also joined by an online audience, extending participation beyond the physical venue and bringing more builders into the conversation as we build toward the June hackathon.
#AIforAgricultureInnovationChallenge #KenyaAIChallenge #AgriTech
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Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday night in the rain to open up the new space with us!
@btrustteam @fedibtc @HRF @GridlessCompute @AnganiLTD @FiresideGrp and @QhalaHQ
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NodeNBO retweeted
May 20
The world's newest physical Bitcoin space — @NodeNBO — has officially opened it's doors!
Located in Kenya 🇰🇪, Node NBO is an event space, a tech lab, and a co-working hub for members of the @GridlessCompute, @fedibtc, @btrust_builders, and @HRF teams.
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The model that fits Africa is already running.
Modular solar containerized compute, placed on stranded power. Bitcoin mining is the flexible load that tracks the sun. No gas needed to firm it.
Stop moving megawatts to the computers. Move the computers to the megawatts.
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The unit is a pod: 1MW solar, ~250kW of compute, batteries. About $1M each. No interconnection queue, no sovereign guarantee, no transmission line on the critical path.
A billion dollars is a thousand pods. A thousand communities with power.
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