A Kazakhstan telco is planning to construct a data center with a state-owned Chinese energy firm.

On September 2, an agreement was signed between Kazakhtelecom, a Kazakh telco company, and China Energy Overseas Investment, a subsidiary of the state-owned energy and mining firm China Energy, during Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s official visit to Beijing as part of the eighth China-Kazakhstan Business Council.

It appears that the facility will be in Kazakhstan, but the exact location was not disclosed. Further information about the deal was also undisclosed.

According to a Telegram post by Bagdat Mussin, the chairman of the Board of Kazakhtelecom, the first phase of the facility, offering 20MW in capacity, will begin construction next year.

The data center will provide 100MW of capacity at full build-out. This is significant, given that Kazakhstan is not a popular destination for data centers. Data center tracking services, Baxtel and Data Center Map, indicate that the country only possesses two colocation facilities.

Kazakhtelecom is the country’s largest telco. In May 2025, the company announced that it would launch Kazakhstan’s first commercial data center sometime in the summer. The company’s press release did not disclose details about the facility’s total capacity, but stated that it would be "powered by Nvidia’s H200 GPUs and offer an estimated total performance of 56.4 petaflops.”

Recently, Qatar’s Power International Holding finalized its acquisition of the company’s Mobile Telecom-Service LLP by inking a sale and purchase agreement worth $1.1 billion.

China Energy Overseas Investment has an existing presence in Kazakhstan. In July of last year, the two signed an agreement to jointly develop a 500MW wind power plant in the central region of Karaganda and a 300MW solar plant in the southernmost Kazakh province, Turkestan.