NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang singled out Kazakhstan in his remarks at the Firebird event in Armenia. According to him, Kazakhstan and Armenia are building their own AI infrastructure so they can develop artificial intelligence domestically instead of relying entirely on foreign services.
Over the next 12 months, Firebird plans to deploy 250 MW of NVIDIA AI infrastructure across Kazakhstan and Armenia. Huang also highlighted a separate project in Ekibastuz, where Data Center Valley is being built together with Kazakhtelecom with a planned capacity of 125 MW.
In practical terms, this is not just about delivering AI accelerators. It is about creating the underlying compute platform needed to train and run models inside the country. That approach reduces dependence on external cloud providers, improves digital resilience, and lays the groundwork for a local ecosystem of AI services, research centers, and enterprise customers.
Huang summed it up bluntly: “No country can outsource all of its intelligence.” For Kazakhstan, that points to a strategy centered on domestic data centers, server infrastructure, and energy-backed compute capacity that could become one of the region’s key AI hubs.