Pakistan has launched its first locally hosted artificial intelligence cloud, a major milestone that enables sensitive national data to stay within the country while giving businesses, researchers, and government institutions access to high-performance AI computing for the first time.
Developed through a partnership between Telenor Pakistan and Data Vault Pakistan, the sovereign AI cloud is hosted entirely onshore inside Data Vault’s high-density AI data center, ensuring full compliance with national regulations and security frameworks. Until now, Pakistan relied on foreign cloud servers for AI workloads, raising concerns over financial data privacy, telecom metadata protection, and national security.
“This is how Pakistan moves from consuming AI to producing it,” said Data Vault Pakistan CEO Mehwish Salman Ali, calling the launch a national capability that allows organizations to train, deploy, and scale AI models without sending any data abroad.
The platform is designed for high-intensity workloads such as training large language models, video analytics, fraud detection, generative AI, and real-time processing—tasks that require powerful GPUs. Through GPU-as-a-Service, companies can now rent NVIDIA-grade compute on demand, avoiding costly hardware imports and shortages.
Key national sectors stand to benefit immediately: finance (fraud monitoring, AML), health care (diagnostics and medical imaging), telecom (metadata analytics), logistics (predictive automation), manufacturing (industrial AI), and government services (secure digital governance). The system keeps all categories of sensitive data—financial, medical, telecom, and public records—inside Pakistan’s borders, aligning with SBP, PTA, health regulations, and emerging AI safety guidelines.
Officials say the initiative strengthens data sovereignty, boosts cybersecurity, improves auditability, and provides the foundation for local AI innovation, including Urdu and regional-language models. With sovereign GPU capacity now available, Pakistani startups and researchers can build next-generation AI systems domestically instead of depending on offshore platforms.
The Telenor–Data Vault cloud places Pakistan among a growing group of nations building sovereign AI clouds to power their digital economies, marking a shift from AI consumption to AI creation.
