Every Navon site, every layer of the stack, every partnership is measured against the same three principles. If a deployment isn't all three, it isn't Navon.
Regions retain control over their data, infrastructure, and digital future — rather than depending on external powers. Residency by physical fact, not policy promise.
This is the test we hold ourselves to: if your data sits on hardware we operate, that hardware sits in your jurisdiction. Encryption keys are held in-country. Operators on the ground are local. Audits happen in person. Cross-border replication only when you ask for it.
Built on energy-efficient, clean, resilient infrastructure that can scale within real environmental limits. Geothermal, hydro, solar — chosen at the source, not bought as offsets.
Diesel is for emergency backup, never primary. Site selection starts with the energy question. PUE is measured under load, not in spec sheets. The Hells Gate flagship runs at 95% geothermal from the Olkaria-Suswa 220 kV corridor — a hard ceiling on carbon intensity that we hold every site to.
Locally available, usable, affordable — through open platforms, partnership programmes, and a price point that growth-market institutions can actually clear.
Hyperscalers price for the West. Africa-priced compute means affording GPU hours that don't depend on USD-denominated subscriptions sized for Silicon Valley. It also means JupyterHub for any university researcher in 60 seconds, on-site internships, mentorship from UCL / ETH / UPM / UPC, and quantum sandboxes for institutions that wouldn't otherwise touch them.
Before a site, layer, or partnership goes live, it answers yes to all six. If it can't, we re-design or walk away. This is the test we hold ourselves to internally — and that customers and partners can hold us to externally.
We publish the test because we want to be measured against it. If you ever see a Navon deployment that doesn't clear all six, send us the receipts.