50 MW First Phase Under Construction at Ekibastuz Data Center Valley
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A first 50 MW facility is under construction at the Data Center Valley site in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, with launch planned for June 2027. The site’s energy infrastructure is designed for 300 MW, with potential expansion to 1 GW.
- The first 50 MW facility at Ekibastuz Data Center Valley is under construction.
- Launch of the first phase is planned for June 2027.
- The site’s energy infrastructure is designed for 300 MW.
- Expansion to 1 GW is described as a future possibility, not commissioned capacity.
- Power-network and generation build-out will be critical to any larger-scale deployment.
Kazakhstan is developing the Data Center Valley site in Ekibastuz for large data centers and AI computing capacity. Its first phase—a 50 MW facility—is under construction, according to the source material, with launch planned for June 2027.
The project is being positioned around pre-developed power infrastructure rather than as a standalone data center development. The site’s energy infrastructure is designed for 300 MW. The source also identifies a potential future expansion of that energy infrastructure to as much as 1 GW.
This distinction is material for operators and investors: the 300 MW and potential 1 GW figures refer to site energy infrastructure, not confirmed commissioned or guaranteed available IT capacity. Likewise, the 1 GW level remains a possible expansion, not built capacity.
Ekibastuz was selected as an energy center in Kazakhstan with large power stations and a substantial concentration of coal-fired generation. For the data center market, the development points to growing interest in energy-provisioned campuses for AI workloads, where grid and generation infrastructure can become both the principal constraint and a competitive differentiator. The scale-up case will depend on delivery of the required network and generation infrastructure.
The project illustrates the shift toward power-led data center campuses for large-scale and AI computing workloads. While the 1 GW figure is a potential future expansion rather than installed capacity, it could make grid and generation development the central determinant of the site’s ability to scale.
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