Boosteroid, Gaw Capital, and Firebird AI have signed preliminary agreements to establish 480MW of data center capacity in Kazakhstan. Representing phase two of the country’s “Data Center Valley” project, plans were revealed during a meeting held between Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of AI and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev. The Data Center Valley project is described as a “technological and major economic project” that will see up to 1GW of data center capacity developed in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan by 2029. Phase one is already underway, and will see three data centers totalling 304MW developed. In a progress report, Bagdat Musin, chairman of the board of JSC Kazakhtelecom, said that construction work on the site of the first 68MW data center has moved from the preparatory stage to the construction of foundations, infrastructure facilities, and the administrative building, and is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2027. Work is simultaneously underway to build a second Firebird AI data center with a capacity of 164MW. Excavation work is 70 percent complete and will see further phased expansion of computing capacity and construction of energy infrastructure. Completion and launch are scheduled for the third quarter of 2027. The third data center will have a capacity of 72MW, scheduled for commissioning in the fourth quarter of 2027. Phase two, meanwhile, is the project involving Gaw, Boosteroid, and Firebird AI. Targeting 480MW, this is said to be expandable to 620MW. According to a notice from the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, negotiations are underway with Aleria, Energy Capital Global, and China Energy for an additional 240MW of capacity, with the potential to expand to 420MW. Talks are underway for a third phase. Boosteroid is known for its cloud gaming services. DL Invest Group and Boosteroid formed a joint venture in November 2025 with plans to establish 12 hyperscale data centers in Europe, the first of which was confirmed to be planned for Bielsko-Biała, Poland, in February 2025 . That data center will offer up to 300MW. Earlier this year, the company, along with DL Invest Group, signed a $2.5bn data center infrastructure agreement with Argentum AI, which would see Argentum AI deploying GPU infrastructure within the pair's facilities. Firebird AI is an AI cloud startup. In August of this year, the company launched its Armenian AI data center, the largest such facility in the Caucasus region. The company said the facility is expected to have 300MW of total capacity by the end of 2027. Built on the Nvidia DSX platform, the data center will be powered by more than 70,000 Nvidia Rubin and Blackwell GPUs. Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital is a private equity firm focusing on real estate markets across Asia-Pacific, with investments in residential development, offices, malls, hospitality, warehouses, and data centers. Kazakhstan is not a major data center market. Located in Central Asia, the country currently has just 19 data centers, according to DataCenterMap . Akashi is currently developing a 100MW data center in the country. Chinese IT firm Maase is exploring development in the country, and Veon broke ground on a facility in December 2025.