CIOTech Outlook Team | Thursday, 10 July 2025, 12:49 IST
Kazakhstan has officially launched the supercomputer in Central Asia, and it is a key step in their digital transformation. The supercomputer was revealed by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and it will help facilitate Kazakhstan's move into AI, research, and technology independence. The supercomputing cluster includes NVIDIA H200 graphics processors and can achieve up to two exaflops of performance in FP8 precision.
Until now, Kazakh startups, research organizations, and financial firms have been relying on expensive and potentially unsecure foreign cloud services. The new domestic supercomputer will be able to handle sensitive and large-scale AI workloads within Kazakhstan.
Zhaslan Madiyev, Minister of Digital Development, Innovation, and Aerospace Industry stated, "Kazakhstan’s new national supercomputer can perform in just one second as many calculations as the entire world’s population – all 8 billion people – could do in over four days if each person solved one equation every second".
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This project also focuses on developing local capacity; the engineers were already trained and more human resources are to be trained in the next five years. And full control of the supercomputer will shift to Kazakhstan’s specialists over time.
The supercomputer will be available through a national initiative known as QazCompute. Access will be free for universities, government departments and agencies, and start-up firms; well-established firms and firms exporting their products will enjoy substantial discounts. International users who are not based in Kazakhstan will pay the standard commercial rates.
The launch came after the U.S. implemented a quota regime for high-performance chips, allowing Kazakhstan to import NVIDIA hardware without special licenses. The government was quick to use the opportunity to design the system and update its data centers before tighter regulations were imposed globally.
In terms of the future, Kazakhstan plans to scale up computing capacity to at least 10 exaflops in order to meet demand; so it has established competitive incentives such as customs duty exemptions and VAT offsets on imported tech infrastructure.
