BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 2. Kazakhstan may
start exporting computing power and compute tokens from 2027 as it
expands its data center infrastructure, Bagdat Mussin, Chairman of
the Board of Kazakhtelecom JSC, said during the AI & Digital Bridge
2026 forum in Astana.


“From next year, I hope we will start to export computing power
and compute tokens, and that’s really a huge demand in the world
now happening,” Mussin said.


He said Kazakhstan plans to first build value from its domestic
computing capacity and gradually expand the country’s data center
infrastructure.


“I hope that in a few years we will get to the 1 gigawatt
consumption, and after that, I think that we will enter into the
giga-league,” Mussin said.


According to Mussin, reaching this scale would allow Kazakhstan
to engage major hyperscalers and neo-cloud companies not only to
provide computing capacity in the country, but potentially to
connect their operations with Kazakhstan’s developing space
industry. He said the concept of Data Center Valley is not limited
to a single location.


“Data Center Valley is like a conceptual vision. It’s not one
place where we are going to install these data centers. All our
territory can be Data Center Valley,” Mussin said.


Mussin identified international connectivity and access to
electricity as key factors in attracting hyperscalers to
Kazakhstan. He said Kazakhtelecom had already reduced network
latency from 90 milliseconds to 70 milliseconds and was developing
a fiber-optic connection across the Caspian Sea.


“I hope that through this route we will shorten the latency to
50 to 45 milliseconds. And this is truly, extremely important to be
connected to the global world of AI,” Mussin said.







The Caspian fiber-optic project is being implemented by
Kazakhtelecom, with installation and cable-laying works already
completed, while adjustment and commissioning works are currently
underway, he said.


Mussin also highlighted Kazakhstan’s potential role in providing
edge computing services to Central Asia.


“Someone must serve Central Asia. Someone must serve this area,
and we will be that state that will serve neighboring countries,”
he said.


He added that the government was providing incentives to support
the development of the data center industry, including access to
electricity at around 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.


According to Mussin, Kazakhstan’s power generation plans
envisage more than 5 GW of additional capacity that could be used
for data centers and computing infrastructure.


He also said Kazakhstan’s potential development of space-based
data centers would depend on the country first building expertise
and capacity in terrestrial data centers, computing infrastructure
and connectivity.


Mussin noted that Kazakhstan is developing partnerships with
technology companies including Nvidia and AMD, while the Ministry
of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development is working on
legislation related to low-Earth-orbit satellite
infrastructure.