Veon-owned telco Beeline Kazakhstan announced that it has kicked off construction of a Tier III hyperscale data centre in Almaty that aims to serve as the anchor for Kazakhstan’s sovereign cloud, AI compute and enterprise digital services ecosystem.
Beeline said the “Hyper Cloud” data centre will offer small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a wide range of cloud platform services, including IaaS, PaaS, BaaS, GPU-as-a-Service, and Security-as-a-Service, enabling them to scale more rapidly, improve operational efficiency, and implement innovations securely.
The data centre will also provide a sovereign cloud platform that ensures all customer data stays within Kazakhstan to comply with national security and data-sovereignty requirements, Beeline said.
The telco added that the data centre will provide full-service redundancy within its own infrastructure. No details were given in terms of IT load capacity or rack space.
Beeline Kazakhstan CEO Evgeniy Nastradin said the data centre investment will prepare Kazakhstan for its next phase of digital growth by providing domestic, secure, and scalable compute capacity for AI, blockchain solutions and next-generation telecom services.
“Cloud capacity is essential for the digital future of Kazakhstan,” said Nastradin in a statement. “Kazakhstan’s IT sector continues to expand significantly, with more than 18,000 companies now operating, a 16% increase in three years.”
The news comes a couple of weeks after Veon’s Kazakhstan-based software unit QazCode signed a strategic cooperation agreement with sovereign AI firm MeetKai to develop next-gen large language models (LLMs) that will enable local-language agentic AI services across Veon’s operating markets, including Kazakhstan, paving the way for AI-based digital services in those markets.
QazCode is also developing KazLLM, the first Kazakh language based LLM.
The Tier III Hyper Cloud facility is scheduled to go live by the end of 2026.
