startupfortune.com
2026-06-15
Startup Fortune
Kazakhstan wants Ekibastuz to become a serious AI computing hub, but the verified story is still about power, money, and execution, not a finished GPU empire.
Kazakhstan's pitch is easy to understand. Put data centers near cheap electricity, offer a politically useful location between China, Russia, and Europe, and sell the country as a neutral place for AI infrastructure at a time when compute i