GVP Institutions Compute Engine Pricing Support

Sovereign Compute Node

Infrastructure for critical work

A machine the institution owns, in a room it controls, running the AI its work depends on. The work that must never leave the building does not.

Discuss a node What is inside

What critical work means

Most of an institution's work can go through the engine safely, with important information removed first. Some of it should never leave the building at all.

Budgets before they are publicFigures that move markets or negotiations if they leave early.

Payroll and personnelEvery officer's pay, grade and record, in one place.

Security mattersWork whose existence alone is sensitive.

Anything under a confidentiality ruleWhere the law or the institution says the work stays inside.

Where the work runs
decides who controls it

A global question, sharpest in Africa. On shared infrastructure an institution is one tenant among many, under a jurisdiction that is rarely its own.

The world45%¹

of the world's data centres sit in one country, the United States.

Africa Data Centres Association, 2026

Africa0.6%

of global data centre capacity, for nearly a fifth of the world's people.

Africa Data Centres Association, 2026

Nigeria90%+

of the country's data is hosted outside it.

Nigeria Data Protection Commission, 2026

What is inside,
and what it costs

Real parts at their real prices, so the institution can check every line. Hardware prices are moving quickly this year because of a worldwide memory shortage, so every figure carries its date.

For one office or department

The quiet node

An Apple Mac Studio.³ Silent, low on power, and needs no server room. Its memory is shared by the whole machine, so it can hold a large model in a small box.

From $2,499 M5 Max from $2,499, M5 Ultra from $5,499. Apple US prices, September 2026. Memory chosen when ordered.

For a whole institution

The institution node

A workstation built around one NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 graphics card. The chip on the card does the work; its 96GB of memory is what lets it hold a large model.

$16,000 for the card² NVIDIA's official US price, August 2026. The workstation around it is quoted on the day, because memory prices are moving weekly.

Only where the room needs it

Power backup

A 5kVA inverter and a 5kWh lithium battery, so the node keeps working when the grid does not. Many institutions already have this.

₦1.7m to ₦2.2m Nigerian market estimate for 2026, inverter and battery together.

A receipt, not a package

The institution sees exactly what the box costs and exactly what we charge. We make nothing on the hardware.

Sovereign Compute NodeHow every quote is laid out

HardwareAt the supplier's price Passed through at cost, with the date and where the price came from. Or the institution buys it itself through its own procurement.

Shipping and import dutyAs charged Shown as they actually came, not averaged into anything else.

Power backupOnly if needed Left out entirely where the room already has reliable power.

Setup, by NSIBRAOne fee Installing the machine, loading the model and connecting it to the institution's work.

Care, by NSIBRAMonthly Updates, keeping the model current, and fixing it when something goes wrong.

Hardware is a capital purchase an institution may already know how to make. Setup and care are an ordinary service contract.

Take only what
you are missing

Not every institution needs every part. The node is priced as pieces, so nobody pays for what they already have.

The boxA quiet node for one office, or an institution node for many departments. The only part every node needs.

Bring your ownIf the institution already has a suitable machine, there is nothing to buy. We set it up and look after it.

Power, if neededAn inverter and battery for rooms without reliable power. Optional wherever backup already exists.

One node, sharedA ministry can run one node for its agencies and parastatals, each kept separate inside it, and share the cost.

Stated plainly

What the node guarantees, and what it asks the institution to accept.

Required means required Where the institution requires its node, work stops rather than leaving. There is no quiet fallback to anything outside, even if the machine is off.

The honest trade The models that run on a box in the building are open models, and they are not as strong as the largest cloud models.⁴ The engine lets the institution decide which work must stay on the node, and which may go out with important information removed.

The institution owns it The machine, the room and the keys are the institution's. When a contract ends, the hardware stays where it is.

What runs on it Institution OS and GVP move onto the node unchanged: the same dashboard, logins, library and format. Only where the work runs changes.

Institution OS

Before you decide

Who owns the hardware?

The institution. It either buys the machine itself or receives it at cost, and it stays with the institution whatever happens to the contract.

Who has access to the room?

Whoever the institution decides. The node sits in a room it controls, and our engineers work on it only with the institution's permission.

What happens if the node is switched off?

Where the institution requires its node, work stops rather than leaving. Where it does not, work continues through the Sovereign Compute Engine, with important information removed first. The institution chooses which.

Can we use a machine we already have?

Often, yes. If it has enough memory for the model, there is nothing to buy. We set it up and look after it.

Why are prices given in dollars?

Because the hardware is priced that way where it is made. Every quote converts at the day's rate and is valid for a short window, since both the exchange rate and memory prices are moving.