Uganda

Name: Uganda
Address: UG

Uganda has no localisation rule, is drafting an emerging technologies strategy covering AI and cloud, and is studying a third national data centre.

Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 permits transfers where the destination is adequate or the person consents and is reported not to require localisation. The ICT ministry announced in March 2026 that a national emerging technologies strategy covering AI and cloud is being developed. NITA-U launched a data centre market study in March 2025 that supports a third national data centre. Reported plans exist to use surplus hydropower, including a proposed 30 MW AI facility. No national supercomputing programme was found.

AI policy and activity

No adopted national AI strategy found. Reported: the ICT ministry contracted a University of Nairobi academic to draft a national emerging technologies strategy on AI and cloud (March 2026), aligned with National Development Plan IV.

Power and grid

Reported. The 600 MW Karuma hydro plant is cited in the same article as a power source for planned facilities. Surplus generation claims in a paywalled trade piece were not readable and are not used. No grid connection or tariff terms for data centres found.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
Raxio data centre Raxio	Namanve, near Kampala	Operating	Reported. One of about four data centres listed in a February 2026 AllAfrica piece (with MTN, a government centre and the NITA-U National Data Centre). No capacity given. (source)
Aeonian Project Synectic Technologies	Uganda, drawing on Karuma hydropower	Planned	Reported. Described as an off-grid green energy hyperscale facility with a plan for 30 MW AI capacity. Stage and site not confirmed. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 Read the cited source	Law	In force from 3 May 2019	Reported. Law-firm digest. Personal Data Protection Office under NITA-U. Regulations took effect 12 March 2021. No data localisation mandate reported.
National emerging technologies strategy (AI and cloud) Read the cited source	Policy	Proposed	Reported. Announced March 2026, under development. Covers data centres and cloud as infrastructure themes.
NITA-U Data Center Market Study and third national data centre Read the cited source	Planning	Proposed	Primary. NITA-U page, study launched March 2025 under the Uganda Digital Acceleration Project. Says it supports establishing a third National Data Centre. No location or capacity given.

Official research-access information

ACE Uganda HPC: official account information · Institutional source. Ordinary unframed institutional links only; no source content reproduced. Read the institution's current information before acting. Eligibility, charges, funding, admission, allocation, a live application window and current availability are not verified here. This is not a free or funded programme listing. No endorsement, open source-content licence or recurring monitoring permission is implied. Link checked 17 October 2026; next link review by 23 October 2026. This does not refresh the other country fields.

Recorded facility evidence

These separately checked records retain their own source dates and explicit gaps; this does not refresh the other country fields or establish current operation or available compute.

Raxio Uganda UG1 Record checked 12 November 2026. Inspect its evidence and limits.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Uganda: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/uganda

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@misc{computefinder_countries_uganda,
  title        = {Uganda: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0075}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0075},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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