Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future

During Jensen Huang's visit to Astana, Firebird signed an investment agreement with Kazakhstan securing a U.S. export license for 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs, with a first phase under construction with Kazakhtelecom at Data Center Valley targeting commercial launch in Q3 2027. Kazakhtelecom has already deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 NVIDIA B300 GPUs in Astana and Almaty, and NVIDIA announced an investment in Kazakhstan-founded startup Higgsfield AI. Huang and Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev discussed Kazakh-language models, physical AI for mining and agriculture, and AI security via NVIDIA OpenShell at the Alem.AI fireside chat.