
Huang urges Kazakhstan to build domestic computing infrastructure using Nvidia technology
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with Kazakhstan's digital minister in Astana to promote 'sovereign AI,' encouraging the nation to utilize its energy reserves to build domestic computing infrastructure and 'AI factories' using Nvidia chips.
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Nvidia is promoting the concept of 'sovereign AI,' which encourages nations to develop their own computing infrastructure. Kazakhstan is leveraging its energy reserves to attract such technology investments.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pitching the concept of “sovereign AI” in Kazakhstan – part of his global crusade urging nations to build domestic computing infrastructure using the firm’s chips – as the energy-rich nation emerges as a US-China battleground for artificial intelligence.
Speaking at a fireside chat in Astana on Friday with Kazakh AI and digital development minister Zhaslan Madiyev, Huang said AI was reshaping every industry in a transformation that “affects every single person and country”.
Huang added that Nvidia provided the computing foundation powering AI hubs, which required vast resources, particularly electricity and data.
His remarks come as Kazakhstan seeks to leverage its vast energy reserves to become a regional computing hub by building what Huang calls “AI factories”.

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