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Kazakhstan Signs $10B AI Infrastructure Deal With Nvidia-Backed Firebird for a 'Data Center Valley'
Kazakhstan inked a $10B AI infrastructure agreement on June 15 with US startup Firebird, backed by Nvidia, centered on a planned 'Data Center Valley' in Ekibastuz. It is the latest sovereign-compute play in which a government partners with a US infrastructure startup plus Nvidia to stand up domestic AI capacity rather than rent it from hyperscalers. The trend matters for the geopolitics of compute: GPU access is increasingly being negotiated at the nation-state level, and where the data centers physically sit is becoming a strategic decision rather than a procurement one.
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