NVIDIA says Kazakhtelecom deployed 880 GPUs, plans more than 2,000

Kazakhtelecom has deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 B300 graphics processing units in Kazakhstan, according to NVIDIA. That puts the installed total described in the announcement at 880 GPUs. NVIDIA said the systems are in Astana and Almaty, but did not specify how the two clusters are divided between the cities.

The carrier’s next steps are plans rather than completed capacity. NVIDIA said Kazakhtelecom intends to add more than 1,000 GPUs to the Data Center Valley project in 2027 and, separately, deploy more than 1,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in the Ekibastuz region that year. The announcement did not provide binding delivery dates, purchase values or power details for either expansion.

Kazakhtelecom describes its AI-Farabium system as a 400-GPU H200 cluster, and The benchmark database lists the system and its benchmark configuration. The 480-GPU B300 deployment was not independently confirmed. GPUs are processors built to run many calculations in parallel, making them central to training and serving AI models.

NVIDIA also said Firebird had secured a U.S. export license covering 45,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs and was building a first Kazakhstan phase with Kazakhtelecom for a targeted commercial launch in the third quarter of 2027. Kazakhstan’s government previously announced a $10 billion package of agreements around a planned 100,000-GPU Data Center Valley cluster. Those investment, capacity and economic-impact figures are government and participant projections.

Separately, NVIDIA said inDrive and Pony.ai are collaborating to explore robotaxi services in Kazakhstan, with Astana intended as the first deployment city. The companies will assess the feasibility of bringing Pony.ai’s seventh-generation robotaxis to the inDrive app with support from NVIDIA AI infrastructure. The proposed vehicles would use NVIDIA Hyperion, also featured in NVIDIA’s European mobility and robotaxi programs. Kazakhstan’s AI ministry said a prior Astana pilot framework made a full launch conditional on successful testing and regulation.