Kazakhstan to launch first Data Center Valley facility in H1 2027 - PM
ASTANA. June 26 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan will commission a 125 MW data center in the city of Ekibastuz in the Pavlodar region in the first half of 2027, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said Friday.
"A data center is now under construction in Ekibastuz. We will bring a 125 MW facility online in the first half of next year, and another data center of the same capacity (125 MW) will be commissioned in 2028," Bektenov told a joint session of parliament.
The project is part of the Data Center Valley development plan for the Pavlodar region, he said.
Kazakhstan currently hosts all government data in a single 6 MW data center in Astana, the prime minister noted.
Bektenov also said IT services exports grew 60% in 2025 from a year earlier to reach $1.1 billion.
Full-scale construction of the Data Center Valley project in the Pavlodar region is set to begin in June, as reported earlier.
The Data Center Valley is being developed in Ekibastuz, with plans to create the largest campus in Central Asia with an energy capacity of up to 1 GW. Land parcels totaling 1,400 hectares have been allocated for the project.
Kazakhstan is developing Data Center Valley together with U.S.-based Firebird, whose key partner is NVIDIA. The potential value of agreements tied to the project is estimated at $10 billion.
Once up and running, the project is expected to generate no less than $3 billion in annual export revenue, create new jobs, attract global tech companies and strengthen Kazakhstan's position as a key digital hub in Eurasia.
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