Nvidia CEO visits Kazakhstan as Firebird secures licences for 45,000 GPUs
What happened
On 23 October 2026, Nvidia said in an official blog post that CEO Jensen Huang visited Kazakhstan, where Firebird signed an investment agreement with the Kazakh government and obtained US export licences for 45,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs. The first phase, built with Kazakhtelecom in Data Center Valley, is scheduled to enter commercial service in the third quarter of 2027. The project is still at the agreement and launch stage, with no reports yet of construction or delivery progress.
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- NVIDIA BlogKazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future
Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment. The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications.
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