Kazakhstan scales AI compute: 1,000+ GPUs next year plus Vera Rubin deployments
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-10-23
- Kazakhtelecom, the country's largest telecom, has deployed 400 H200 and 480 B300 GPUs across Astana and Almaty; next year it plans 1,000+ GPUs in Data Center Valley and 1,000+ NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in Ekibastuz.
- inDrive and Pony.ai are exploring robotaxi services in Kazakhstan, with Astana as the first city, evaluating Pony.ai's seventh-gen robotaxis on the inDrive app, built on the NVIDIA Hyperion platform with the Halos safety system.
- NVIDIA frames the announcements as full-stack progress: infrastructure, compute access, and AI-native product development, tied to Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin keynote.
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