880 GPUs: Kazakhstan expands its computing power for AI
NVIDIA says Kazakhtelecom has deployed H200 and B300 GPUs and plans more than a thousand additional ones next year.

Kazakhstan is adding powerful machines to run AI at home. This helps local companies try out their ideas.
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More local capacity lets developers train and run models inside the country.
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- Kazakhtelecom has deployed 400 H200 and 480 B300 GPUs in Astana and Almaty.
- Next year it plans more than 1,000 GPUs in the Data Center Valley.
- And more than 1,000 Vera Rubin GPUs in the Ekibastuz region.
- inDrive and Pony.ai are exploring a robotaxi service, with Astana as the first city.
- The information comes from NVIDIA's official blog.
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