Almaty, 30 October. The first phase of Freedom Holding Corp.’s AI supercluster, about 4 MW on NVIDIA B300 servers, will start working in the second quarter of 2027, and more than half of it will be used by the holding itself, its chief technology officer and Freedom AI chief executive Renat Tukanov said at the Freedom Talk discussion on 29 October, Kursiv reports.
The first phase was initially planned at 2 MW; by the end of 2027 the holding wants to commission 25 MW in Astana and about 50 MW in all. The holding’s own 2 MW amount to about 120 million dollars of equipment, with graphics cards accounting for 65–75% of a server’s cost. Access will be sold in GPU hours — paying for computing time rather than renting servers for a year; there are no plans to sell capacity to foreign corporations years ahead, as the cluster is being built as “sovereign”. Freedom Cloud chief executive Temirlan Zinalabdin said state bodies and the quasi-public sector ask not for chips but for ready-made solutions such as video analytics and speech recognition.
The main difficulty is not servers but buildings. Kazakh data centres are designed for 5–15 kW per rack: a single air-cooled B300 server already draws about 15 kW, a liquid-cooled GB300 rack 130 kW, and NVIDIA’s next generation 230 kW. The country has 7 data centres with 2 more under construction, about 1,900 racks in all. Delivery of cooling chillers has stretched to 12–15 months from 4–6 within a year, HBM memory for graphics cards is made by three companies worldwide, with SK hynix having contracted its output through the end of 2026, and importing the chips requires an export licence from the US Bureau of Industry and Security.
What it means: A private Kazakh holding is building AI computing capacity mainly for its own needs and domestic demand, but is running into the fact that the country’s existing data centres were not designed for the density of modern AI servers.
Who benefits: Banks, state bodies and companies that the law does not allow to send personal and banking data to foreign clouds gain computing inside the country. Freedom itself replaces outside cloud services with its own. NVIDIA gains new server orders in Kazakhstan.
Background: For scale: the state supercomputer Alem.Cloud — 64 HPE Cray servers with NVIDIA H200 accelerators — ranked 86th in the world TOP500 list in November 2025. The first 215 MW phase of the Data Center Valley in Ekibastuz is already fully reserved, with a 1 GW target. In July 2026 the Ministry of AI and Digital Development, Citi and Freedom signed a memorandum on the Freedom AI Super Cluster. On 29 October Freedom’s subsidiary Freedom Lab signed an agreement with the Transport Ministry to invest more than 112 billion tenge in an intelligent road control system — stations that automatically measure the weight and dimensions of lorries.
We have also reported that NVIDIA was proposed to open a regional physical AI centre in Kazakhstan.
