News - Central Asia
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Iran seeks cloud computing providers for government agencies
Must meet US' National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements, despite tensions between two nations
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100MW AI data center planned in Armenia
Firebird emerges from stealth, aims to deploy thousands of GPUs
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Pakistan redirects 2GW to Bitcoin mining and AI data centers
Country aims to use surplus power to kickstart digital infrastructure boom
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OpenAI pitches Stargate beyond US, says it could work with 10 countries
But projects will be "in coordination with the US government"
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Gcore and AzInTelecom team up on sovereign cloud in Azerbaijan
Deal is Gcore's first presence in the region
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MTN finally completes Afghanistan exit
M1 Group takes control of the operator
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Vertiv launches modular prefabricated overhead infrastructure system 'SmartRun'
Power, networking, and cooling for data hall deployments
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AirNet announces 130MW Kazakhstan data center for Bitcoin mining re-entry
Liquid-cooled facility to be partly powered via natural gas
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Turkish Coast Guard HQ opens data center
First phase of SahilNET network project completed
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2MW data center planned in Armenia
New company VSData plans spring water-cooled facility outside Yerevan
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Dell’Oro Group predicts data center annual capex will hit $1 trillion by 2029
But figure is somewhat based on Stargate happening as promised
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Qatar's PIH finally completes acquisition of MTS from Kazakhtelecom
Reduces the overall dominance of Kazakhtelecom in the country
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European Investment Bank to provide €43m for two data centers in Azerbaijan
Data centers will be for AzInTelecom
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Uzbekistan to build 'carbon-free' data center with Saudi partners
According to the Minister of Digital Technologies
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Khazana Cloud and NASTP plan Pakistan's first hyperscale data center
Will be entirely powered by Huawei
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Kazteleport JSC launches Astana data center in Kazakhstan
Will offer 2MW of IT capacity
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IEA: Global data center electricity consumption to "increase significantly," but remain a small part of overall usage
"Nonetheless, constraints at the local level may be significant"
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AQGroup and MVGX to develop hybrid renewable plant
MoU outlines plans for renewable hybrid plant in Kazakstan
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Pakistani oil company Mari Petroleum to develop data centers across country
Oil company launches data center unit – details of plans unclear
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Uztelecom expands 5G rollout across Uzbekistan
More than 3,500 5G base stations deployed in the country
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Pakistani textiles company pivots to data centers
Follows oil company Mari’s move into the space earlier this month
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Data center 'burned down' and fiber cables cut during Bangladesh protests, government claims
Reports of digital infrastructure destruction are unverified at present
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Transworld Associates to land 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan
Company contracted by China Mobile International and Meta