Kazakhstan’s Data Center Valley adds 480MW second phase

By Grace Kim

Boosteroid, Gaw Capital and Firebird AI have signed preliminary agreements to develop 480MW of data-center capacity in Kazakhstan, adding a second phase to the country’s Data Center Valley project.

The target can expand to 620MW. The companies disclosed the plans during a meeting between Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and Deputy Prime Minister and AI and Digital Development Minister Zhaslan Madiyev.

A notice from the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan describes the Valley as a “technological and major economic project” that will develop up to 1GW of capacity in the Pavlodar region by 2029.

Phase one: three facilities, 304MW

Phase one is already underway, with three data centers totaling 304MW under construction.

• 68MW facility: Bagdat Musin, chairman of the board of JSC Kazakhtelecom, said work had moved “from the preparatory stage to the construction of foundations, infrastructure facilities, and the administrative building.” The facility is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2027.
• 164MW Firebird AI facility: Excavation is 70% complete. The project includes phased expansions in computing capacity and construction of energy infrastructure, with completion and launch scheduled for the third quarter of 2027.
• 72MW facility: Commissioning is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027.

Phase two: preliminary 480MW agreement

The second phase covers the 480MW preliminary agreement involving Boosteroid, Gaw Capital and Firebird AI. Its stated capacity target can expand to 620MW.

Negotiations with Aleria, Energy Capital Global and China Energy cover an additional 240MW, with potential to expand that addition to 420MW. Government officials also confirmed that talks are underway for a third phase.

What changes for Kazakhstan’s data-center market?

Kazakhstan, located in Central Asia, currently has 19 data centers, according to DataCenterMap. The Valley plan would place a multi-phase, gigawatt-scale development pipeline against that limited existing market.

The immediate change is planned capacity, not operating capacity. The 480MW agreement does not disclose financing, power procurement, tenant contracts or a phase-two commissioning date, limiting its use as a basis for forecasting live capacity.

Other developers are already testing the market. Akashi is developing a 100MW data center in Kazakhstan. Chinese IT firm Maase is exploring development, while Veon broke ground on a facility in December 2025.

Partner track records and project context

Boosteroid provides cloud-gaming services, meaning on-demand game streaming. DL Invest Group and Boosteroid formed a joint venture in November 2025 to establish 12 hyperscale, or large centralized computing, data centers across Europe.

The first confirmed site under that plan is in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, where a facility of up to 300MW was slated in February 2025. Earlier this year, Boosteroid and DL Invest Group signed a $2.5bn data-center infrastructure agreement with Argentum AI, under which the latter would deploy graphics processing unit infrastructure within their facilities.

Firebird AI operates as an AI cloud startup, providing shared computing infrastructure for artificial-intelligence workloads. In August of this year, it launched an Armenian AI data center that it described as the largest such facility in the Caucasus region.

Firebird expects the Armenian facility to reach 300MW of total capacity by the end of 2027. It uses Nvidia’s DSX platform and more than 70,000 Nvidia Rubin and Blackwell GPUs, providing the hardware base for large-scale AI training and inference workloads.

Gaw Capital is a Hong Kong-based private equity firm focused on real estate markets across Asia-Pacific. Its investments cover residential development, offices, malls, hospitality, warehouses and data centers.