Kazakhtelecom has deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 NVIDIA B300 graphics processing units across Astana and Almaty, NVIDIA announced. The rollout reflects Kazakhstan's transition from planning artificial intelligence infrastructure to deploying physical hardware across the computing stack, spanning infrastructure, models, and end-user applications.
The telecommunications operator, which is the largest in Kazakhstan, plans to expand its hardware footprint next year. Kazakhtelecom intends to install more than 1,000 GPUs in the country's Data Center Valley. It also plans to install more than 1,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in the Ekibastuz region. These planned installations are intended to serve workloads at scale for developers, institutions, and commercial enterprises.
Local artificial intelligence firms are expanding their compute capacity alongside infrastructure providers. NVIDIA stated that domestic compute supply gives local companies and developers room to train, fine-tune, and run advanced models within the country. While successful software deployments generate more demand for hardware, NVIDIA noted that the country's technological opportunity extends past GPU counts to connecting systems directly with universities, startups, and commercial sectors.
Transportation software companies are pairing with hardware builders to develop domestic applications. Ride-hailing platform inDrive and autonomous driving firm Pony.ai are collaborating to explore robotaxi services in Kazakhstan, targeting Astana as the first city for deployment. Both firms are evaluating the feasibility of offering Pony.ai's seventh-generation autonomous vehicles through the inDrive application. That vehicle fleet runs on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, built on the NVIDIA Hyperion sensor and compute platform alongside the NVIDIA Halos safety system.
NVIDIA highlighted the deployments alongside its GTC Berlin keynote delivered by founder and chief executive Jensen Huang.
