BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 23. Uzbekistan’s
Uztelecom commissioned two new data centers in Bukhara and Kokand
on Sept. 22, expanding the country’s regional computing
infrastructure for artificial intelligence, cloud services, big
data processing and high-performance computing.


This was reflected in the statement by the Ministry of Digital
Technologies of Uzbekistan.


The facilities were inaugurated by Uzbekistan’s Digital
Technologies Minister Sherzod Shermatov and Japanese Ambassador to
Uzbekistan Kenji Hirata during a ceremony at Uztelecom’s stand on
the opening day of ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026.


The new data centers operate as part of the unified national
cloud platform, UzCloud, providing infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS),
object storage and backup services.


The facilities also offer AI Cloud and GPU-as-a-Service
resources, with dedicated GPU servers for training and operating
artificial intelligence models, machine learning, large-scale data
processing, image recognition, video analytics and digital
twins.


“Uzbekistan’s digital economy is growing rapidly, and with it,
the demand for reliable, world-class sovereign infrastructure is
increasing,” said Umar Izbasarov, Director of advanced development
and investment projects at Uztelecom. “Our goal is to make advanced
technologies accessible to companies of all sizes across all
regions of the country.”


Located more than 300 kilometers from Tashkent, the Bukhara and
Kokand facilities are the company’s most geographically distant
data centers from the capital. Their distribution across different
regions is designed to strengthen disaster recovery, allowing
workloads to be transferred between facilities if one site
experiences an outage.







Both projects have received Tier III Design certification from
the Uptime Institute, confirming that their architectural and
engineering designs meet international standards for reliability
and fault tolerance. The facilities feature redundant power and
cooling systems and additional communications channels, allowing
maintenance without interrupting services.


The data centers are connected to Uztelecom’s backbone network
and the national internet traffic exchange point, TAS-IX. The
company’s infrastructure follows ISO/IEC 27001 information security
management standards, while Uztelecom plans to certify its data
centers under the PCI DSS standard for payment-card data
protection.


The next stage of the company’s expansion will be a data center
in Tashkent region’s Zangiata district, scheduled to be
commissioned in autumn 2026. The facility will become the fifth
site in Uztelecom’s geographically distributed data center
network.


The Zangiata facility has also received Tier III certification
and will host an APN photonic network developed with Toyota Tsusho,
NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and NEC under Japan’s IOWN concept. A pilot
project was launched on September 22 by Hideo Fuseda, Japan’s vice
minister for internal affairs and communications.


Uztelecom said more than 13 million users currently use its
digital services and solutions.