DUSHANBE – October 28, 2025: Tajikistan’s darya.ai Ltd, a company specializing in sustainable AI infrastructure, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with India’s Yotta Data Services to develop the country’s first green AI data centre in Darvoz, near the Afghan border. The initiative marks a major step toward Tajikistan’s goal of becoming Central Asia’s emerging hub for AI computing and data innovation.
The project aligns with Tajikistan’s National AI Infrastructure Strategy and its ambition to derive 5% of national GDP from AI by 2040. The facility will deliver high-density AI compute services for enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions, while also supporting AI startups with access to advanced GPU clusters powered by NVIDIA technologies.
According to darya.ai, the centre will launch with an initial capacity of 2 megawatts, expanding up to 100 megawatts in subsequent phases. The site will be fully powered by Tajikistan’s renewable hydropower, tapping into the country’s vast hydroelectric potential, which accounts for over 60% of Central Asia’s total hydropower resources.
“This collaboration reinforces Tajikistan’s ambition to be a bridge between South Asia and Central Asia in the global AI supply chain,” said a joint statement by darya.ai and Yotta Data Services.
Yotta Data Services, one of India’s leading hyperscale and cloud infrastructure providers, brings extensive experience in AI-ready data centres and platform services. The partnership will introduce energy-efficient, high-performance computing infrastructure to a region where commercial data centres are still in early stages of development.
The Darvoz facility represents the first phase of a multi-stage plan to build a national AI infrastructure ecosystem. It follows darya.ai’s recent deployment of the country’s first NVIDIA H200 GPU cluster, also located in Darvoz, further signaling Tajikistan’s growing focus on AI innovation and sustainable energy synergy.
While no official timeline has been disclosed, industry experts view the project as a transformative milestone for Central Asia’s digital economy — one that could redefine the region’s role in AI compute, pre-training, and inference workloads.
