Power Shortages Threaten Kazakhstan’s $1.9 Billion Data Center Push

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Kazakhstan's government is moving forward with its ambitious plan to establish a major data center hub despite current power shortages that threaten the initiative. A memorandum of understanding with an international consortium is a critical step in this development.

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development has signed an agreement with an international consortium to start building out the government’s plan to turn the Central Asian state into a data center hub. The project’s timeline appears to hinge on Kazakhstan’s ability to close an existing power deficit. The ministry’s memorandum of understanding with a consortium led by an entity called JMOT04 Ltd. provides for the construction of a Tier IV data center, the most powerful and reliable classification…