# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-24T06:20:43.691Z
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- Section: geopolitics
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/kazakhstan-ai-compute-ecosystem/), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/nvidia-huang-investment-kazakhstan-.html), [The Astana Times](https://astanatimes.com/2026/10/nvidia-ceo-sees-kazakhstan-as-emerging-ai-hub-during-first-visit/)

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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