Kazakhstan just made the kind of move that turns heads in global tech circles. The country signed a memorandum of understanding with Nvidia and Freedom Holding Corp. on November 7 to build a $2 billion Sovereign AI Hub, part of a broader package of AI-related agreements that could attract up to $10 billion in investment.
The deal was inked during Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s visit to the United States, where his delegation signed 30 bilateral agreements valued at roughly $17.2 billion in total. Education and science partnerships with OpenAI and other organizations account for approximately $50 million in additional commitments.
What the Sovereign AI Hub actually looks like
The planned facility will leverage Nvidia’s exascale computing infrastructure, which is the kind of architecture designed to perform a billion billion calculations per second.
The hub is designed with a planned capacity of 100 megawatts.
