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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 24, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Jensen Huang tells Astana that Kazakhstan will be an AI computing hub for Europe as a 1-gigawatt cluster takes shape in Ekibastuz
NVIDIA's chief executive visited during Kazakhstan's AI Month, where the government is promoting a 300-megawatt data-center valley and a planned $10 billion, 100,000-GPU cluster with US cloud firm Firebird.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and chief executive, made his first visit to Kazakhstan on October 23. At the alem.ai center in Astana, in a session with Zhaslan Madiyev, Kazakhstan's deputy prime minister and minister of artificial intellig…
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