Kazakhstan Scales AI Infrastructure as Firebird Secures U.S. Export License for 45,000 Blackwell GPUs

Kazakhstan is accelerating its national AI infrastructure through a major expansion by infrastructure firm Firebird. The company secured a U.S. export license to deploy 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in the country, partnering with Kazakhtelecom on a Data Center Valley facility slated for commercial launch in Q3 2027. A planned second phase could bring total compute capacity to roughly 500 megawatts, supplementing hundreds of H200 and B300 GPUs already active across Astana and Almaty.