Kazakhstan and a company called Firebird have signed roughly €8.6 billion in agreements to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure, with backing from chipmaker NVIDIA, according to reporting carried by Yahoo Finance via Google News.
The deals are tied to an effort described as "Data Centre Valley" — language that points to a concentrated build-out of the large data centers that train and run modern AI systems. NVIDIA's involvement matters because its graphics processors are the dominant hardware used to power that kind of computing.
Beyond the headline figure and the parties involved, the available source items do not spell out further specifics — such as the timeline, the number of facilities planned, or how the €8.6 billion would be financed and spent.
Why it matters: the agreement signals that AI data-center investment, long concentrated in the United States and a handful of other markets, is now drawing multibillion-euro commitments into Central Asia — a sign of how quickly the global race for AI computing capacity is spreading to new regions.