Data Centres
Data centres, cloud regions and the power behind them.
Stories
ADB lends Rönesans $75 million in its first digital loan in Türkiye
The loan is one part of a $375 million facility led by IFC, and ADB's board paper ties it to a 22 MW first data centre phase.
Brief
Netaş unit signs US$6.3m of network contracts with a banking customer
The two contracts cover data centre switching and routing and branch switches; ARD Grup five days later took a US$662,400 AI equipment order.
Kazakhstan plans 13.3 GW of new generation by 2029 to cover data centres
The energy ministry says 7.4 GW of base load and 5.9 GW of renewables would leave a 20 per cent capacity surplus, AI demand included.
Explainer
Azerbaijan's data centre plans: what officials have said and what documents show
A deputy minister says talks on an Alat data centre are in their final stage; the public record gives no capacity, investor or date.
Analysis
Firebird's GPU and power figures for Armenia and Kazakhstan differ across releases
Armenia's end-2027 GPU target moves from above 100,000 in June to above 70,000 in August; Kazakhstan is 125 MW per the company, 300 MW per the government.
Uzbekistan's president cites $8bn of projects in a Karakalpakstan AI and data centre zone
At a 19 September meeting in Nukus he ordered 1 GW of supply for investors; the official record gives no data centre capacity, developers or dates.
Analysis
Network charges for Türkiye's largest power users are 15% of the EU level, Eurostat shows
Eurostat's 2025 price breakdown shows energy, network and tax components for large users. More than half of Türkiye's gap with the EU sits in the regulated parts.
Analysis
Kazakhstan generated 91.7 billion kWh in nine months, up 2 per cent
A 20,000-rack data-centre target could draw roughly 1.9 to 3.9 per cent of the 126.5 billion kWh forecast for 2026, on Corridor Signal's assumptions.
Uzbekistan proposes joint computing network for Central Asia and Azerbaijan
President Mirziyoyev's 8 October proposal names no capacity, funding or timetable; Kazakhstan put forward an AI declaration at the same meeting.
Analysis
Large power users in Türkiye paid 40 per cent of the EU average price
A 10 MW data centre would pay about €6 million a year for power at Türkiye's €0.0486 per kWh, against €14.9 million at the EU average.
Analysis
Kazakhstan's 295 MW data centre plan meets KEGOC's demand response pilot
KEGOC forecasts a winter peak of 18,200 MW, 480 MW above last year, while the government plans 186 MW of data centres in 2027 and 109 MW in 2028.
Brief
Firebird says its cluster meets 95 per cent of NVIDIA reference performance
The company announced the Exemplar Cloud Achievement on 12 October, but the release gives no benchmark values, cluster size or independent verification.
Analysis
IXPs reach 97 per cent of networks in Tajikistan but 21 per cent in Georgia
Internet Society Pulse data for October put Uzbekistan at 22 per cent, while Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have no active exchange point listed.
Kazakhstan sets 295 MW data centre target for 2027 and 2028
The plan implies close to ten times the operating capacity of about 30.7 MW within roughly 20 months, and the government gives no breakdown by project.
Nvidia says Firebird has a US export licence for 45,000 GPUs for Kazakhstan
Nvidia's post puts Firebird's potential capacity in Kazakhstan at about 500 MW, but neither the licence nor a new investment agreement is public.
Digital Realty enters Türkiye with a 22 MW Ankara campus planned for 2028
The joint venture with Rönesans Infrastructure plans a second site in Istanbul; the release gives no investment amount or ownership split.
Drone strikes on Yandex data centres disrupt Kazakh and Uzbek services
Yandex Cloud says its Vladimir data centre has stopped operating; Kazakhstan's ministry says key computing for local users is still performed abroad.
Uztelecom opens Bukhara and Kokand data centres on national cloud
The operator commissioned two Tier III-designed sites more than 300 km from Tashkent, with GPU services; capacity figures were not disclosed.
DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye open first phase of Izmir data centre
The 4 MW site is designed for GPU workloads and is planned to scale to 20 MW, with total spend targeted at about $300 million.
Explainer
Turkcell runs 50 MW of data-centre IT load and added 225.8 MW of solar in 2025
Its annual report shows how what it calls Türkiye's largest data-centre operator manages power before doubling capacity for a Google Cloud region due around 2028 to 2029.
