Tajikistan’s darya.ai Ltd, a company with a focus on sustainable AI infrastructure, and Yotta Data Services, an Indian AI, hyperscale data centre, cloud infrastructure and platform services provider, have announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement with the aim of developing a 'green' AI data centre in the district of Darvoz near the Afghan border.

The collaboration aims to advance Tajikistan’s national AI infrastructure strategy and contribute to the country’s goal of deriving five percent of GDP from AI by 2040. The project, says Yotta, reinforces the nation’s ambition to become Central Asia’s emerging hub for AI compute, pre-training, and inference workloads. 

The partners say their new data centre will deliver high-density AI compute services tailored for enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions, while also supporting startups with access to AI clusters equipped with the latest Nvidia GPUs. Darya.ai’s website states that the facility will initially offer 2MW and then expand up to 100MW.

The project is to be powered entirely by Tajikistan’s renewable hydropower. The country holds over 60% of the region’s hydropower potential and has committed to allocating power for AI development, ensuring long-term capacity and scalability.

The Darvoz facility apparently marks the first phase of what is called a multi-stage plan to position Tajikistan as a strategic bridge between South Asia and Central Asia in the global AI supply chain. It follows darya.ai’s recent launch of the country’s first Nvidia H200 GPU cluster, also in Darvoz.

However, so far development timelines for the facility been disclosed. Also, as the website Data Centre Dynamics points out, Tajikistan is not a prominent data centre market, and there do not, so far, appear to be any commercial data centres in the country.