Telenor Pakistan has formed a strategic alliance with Data Vault Pakistan to deliver Pakistan’s first AI-ready sovereign cloud, giving enterprises secure, in-country access to GPU-powered AI infrastructure and services.
Positioned as the country’s only “AI factory” datacentre, Data Vault will provide GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), enabling businesses to train and deploy AI models, run inference workloads, process local datasets and even develop LLMs for Urdu and regional languages — all without sending data outside Pakistan’s borders.
Data Vault emphasized that its sovereign cloud fully complies with national data-residency requirements, healthcare data laws, emerging AI safety guidelines and regulatory frameworks set by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the State Bank of Pakistan.
“This partnership turns sovereign, high-performance computing into a national capability,” said Data Vault Pakistan CEO Mehwish Salman Ali. “By integrating Data Vault Cloud into Telenor’s enterprise offerings, every organization gains a secure local path from idea to inference — without exporting data. This is how Pakistan moves from consuming AI to producing it.”
The partners also plan to co-develop industry-specific AI applications for fintech, healthcare, telecom automation, agriculture and smart governance — strengthening Pakistan’s position in the emerging sovereign AI ecosystem.
The announcement comes as Telenor Pakistan nears its acquisition by PTCL, a deal that would create the country’s second-largest mobile operator with more than 71 million customers.
