At a glance
- Phase two targets 480MW and is described as expandable to 620MW, Data Center Dynamics reported.
- The 480MW is sponsored by three parties with different businesses.
- Phase one is already under construction: three data centers totaling 304MW.
Boosteroid, Gaw Capital and Firebird AI have signed preliminary agreements to establish 480MW of data center capacity in Kazakhstan, the second phase of the country's Data Center Valley project, which targets up to 1GW in the Pavlodar region by 2029.
Phase two targets 480MW and is described as expandable to 620MW, Data Center Dynamics reported. The plans were presented at a meeting between Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of AI and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev. Terms were not disclosed.
The 480MW is sponsored by three parties with different businesses. Boosteroid runs cloud gaming, Firebird AI is an AI cloud startup, and Gaw Capital is the manager that filed in October to list a real estate debt fund in Hong Kong, as Private Infrastructure Daily previously reported. That mix suggests phase-two revenue will depend on GPU and cloud leasing rates set after commissioning rather than a regulated tariff. The diligence question for anyone offered the equity is which offtake contract, if any, underpins the 480MW.
Phase one is already under construction: three data centers totaling 304MW. Bagdat Musin, chairman of the board of JSC Kazakhtelecom, said in a progress report that work at the first 68MW site has moved from the preparatory stage to foundations, infrastructure facilities and the administrative building, with opening scheduled for the second quarter of 2027. Excavation at the second, a 164MW Firebird AI data center, is 70% complete, and launch is scheduled for the third quarter of 2027. The third, at 72MW, is due in the fourth quarter of 2027.
According to a notice from the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, negotiations are under way with Aleria, Energy Capital Global and China Energy for an additional 240MW, with the potential to expand to 420MW.
Boosteroid's Kazakh commitment extends a European build. DL Invest Group and Boosteroid formed a joint venture in November 2025 with plans for 12 hyperscale data centers in Europe; the first was confirmed for Bielsko-Biała, Poland, at up to 300MW. Earlier this year the pair signed a $2.5 billion data center infrastructure agreement with Argentum AI to deploy GPU infrastructure in their facilities.
Phase one's 304MW plus phase two's 480MW comes to 784MW; the 240MW under negotiation would take the announced pipeline to 1,024MW, past the 1GW target, if all of it is built.
Reported by the Data centers & fiber desk from Data Center Dynamics and Prime Minister of Kazakhstan notice, via Data Center Dynamics. Published . Corrections