The first phase of Freedom's AI supercluster will launch in the second quarter of 2027. More than half of its capacity will be taken by the holding itself. This was announced by Renat Tukanov, CTO of Freedom Holding Corp. and CEO of Freedom AI, during the Freedom Talk discussion "Freedom AI: Inside Infrastructure" on October 29. He also named the cost of the first phase's capacity and explained why data centers in Kazakhstan have to be built from scratch for GPU servers. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

The cluster is being built in phases. The first phase was initially designed for 2 MW, but now it is about 4 MW. It will run on NVIDIA B300 servers, with launch planned for the second quarter of 2027.

By the end of 2027, the holding plans to commission 25 MW in Astana, and about 50 MW in total.

"When we calculated for a 2-megawatt cluster, half of it was already consumed by Freedom itself, and now it consumes even more," said Renat Tukanov.

Asked whether foreign corporations might buy up capacity years in advance, Tukanov replied that the cluster is being built as a sovereign one, that is, primarily for domestic demand.

"The situation where everything goes to foreign companies is, of course, not pleasing. We are thinking about this too," he noted.

Temirlan Zinalabdin, CEO of Freedom Cloud, confirmed in an interview with Kursiv that the launch timeline for the data center in Alatau, which is being built together with NVIDIA, has not shifted. The facility is planned to open in the second quarter of 2027.

The holding itself expects to consume about 2 MW of the cluster's capacity. According to Tukanov, in equipment costs this is about $120 million. From 65% to 75% of a server's cost comes from video cards, with the rest being the CPU framework, without which services around AI models cannot operate.

"If we consume this, then comparable value must arise somewhere for end clients," Tukanov explained.

Access to the cluster will be sold in GPU-hours: a client pays for the time needed, for example, to train a model, rather than renting a server for a year. Among potential clients, the holding names large businesses, SMEs and individuals. Many of them are not allowed by law to transfer personal and banking data to foreign clouds.

Government agencies, according to Zinalabdin, come not for "hardware" but for ready-made services – video analytics and speech recognition.

"The orders that come from government agencies or quasi-government entities do not sound like 'buy us chips,' they sound like 'give us a solution to the pain,'" said the CEO of Freedom Cloud.

He also stated that in the B2B segment, Freedom's cloud is "several times" cheaper than foreign hyperscalers. Specific tariffs were not disclosed by the company.

GPU servers do not fit into existing Kazakh data centers. According to Tukanov, they were built based on 5–15 kW per rack. A single B300 server with air cooling already consumes about 15 kW, meaning it takes up an entire rack. A GB300 rack with liquid cooling requires 130 kW, and the next NVIDIA generation requires 230 kW.

"You cannot simply put servers into an existing data center, so along with buying those same servers, you need to build new data centers. Data centers of a new class," said Tukanov.

To assess the scale of the shortage, he recalled that 7 data centers operate in Kazakhstan and two more are under construction. In total, they have about 1,900 racks.

Construction is held back by several factors at once. The delivery time for cooling chillers has grown over a year from 4–6 to 12–15 months. HBM memory for NVIDIA video cards is produced by only three companies in the world, and one of them, SK hynix, contracted out its production until the end of 2026 back in autumn 2025. Importing chips requires an export license from the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The construction of a data center itself takes about a year.

Demand within the holding is growing. Currently, Freedom's AI load is about 1 MW, and in five years, according to Tukanov's forecast, it will reach about 10 MW.

In April 2025, Freedom Holding Corp. began construction of the Freedom Cloud data center in the Special Economic Zone "Park of Innovative Technologies" (Alatau). The 2.5-hectare facility is designed for 480 racks with capacity up to 15 kW. Useful IT capacity will be 7.2 MW, with total power consumption at 13 MW. Two construction phases were estimated at 75 billion tenge, with equipment at another 100 billion, totaling 175 billion tenge.

In November 2025, Timur Turlov's holding announced the creation of an artificial intelligence center worth $2 billion together with NVIDIA. It was also reported then that the Akashi data center under construction in Astana was 61% booked before launch.

In February 2026, Turlov said he planned to raise another $200–300 million for telecom infrastructure and data centers, and the purchase of chips for the AI hub could cost up to $100 million. In June, he said that construction is financed from current profits, and that offtake contracts have already been signed for new facilities, bringing tens of millions of dollars in revenue from the first year of operation.

In July 2026, on the sidelines of the Foreign Investors' Council under the President, the Ministry of AI and Digital Development, Citi and Freedom Holding Corp. signed a memorandum on the creation of the Freedom AI Super Cluster. At that time, the launch of the first phase was scheduled for Q1 2027, and the second and third phases for 2027–2028. Now the start of the first phase is expected in the second quarter of 2027. Citi promised to evaluate financing options involving international capital.

In September, Renat Tukanov said that the supercluster would allow banking secrecy and personal data of Kazakhstanis to be stored within the country.