A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)
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- Uzbekistan is leading the regional push with TAS-1, a 6MW data center scheduled to come online by year-end
- Kazakhstan is developing a 125MW facility planned to deploy 100,000 Nvidia chips by 2027, dwarfing Uzbekistan's initial project in scale
- The two national projects anchor an intensifying competition across Central Asia to attract data center infrastructure investment
Why it matters: Central Asia is emerging as a new frontier for compute infrastructure, with Kazakhstan's planned 125MW facility and 100,000 Nvidia chips representing a dramatically larger-scale ambition than Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 — positioning the two countries as competing hubs for regional data center investment.
