Indian data center startup Yotta Data Services will develop a facility in Tajikistan.
On October 25, the operator signed an agreement with Tajikistani data center company Darya.ai to develop a “green AI data center” in the central district of Darvoz. The exact location of the facility was not provided.
The facility will be powered by hydropower from Tajikistan and will house Nvidia GPUs. Darya.ai’s website states that the facility will initially offer 2MW and then expand up to 100MW.
It would appear that this “new data center” is separate to the facility inaugurated by darya.ai four months ago, which is also located in Darvoz, powered by hydropower, and uses Nvidia’s H200 chips.
Development timelines for the facility were not disclosed.
Yotta Data Services was founded in 2019 and operates three data centers in Navi Mumbai, Noida, and Gujarat, with sites in development in Pune, Powai, and Chennai in India, and Dhaka in Bangladesh. A facility is also planned in Nepal.
Reports surfaced last December that the company was looking to raise $500 million to invest in its data center portfolio. It is also a participant in Nvidia’s ‘Lepton’ AI platform, which pools the resources of various GPU cloud providers for on-demand and long-term computing.
Tajikistan is not a prominent data center market, and neither Data Center Map nor Baxtel currently lists any commercial data centers in the country.