October 27, 2025
In a strategic move to advance artificial intelligence infrastructure in Central Asia, darya.ai Ltd. and Yotta Data Services have announced a partnership to develop a green AI data center in Darvoz, Tajikistan. The collaboration, formalized through a new agreement, is aligned with Tajikistan's national AI strategy and its goal to derive five percent of its GDP from AI by 2040.
The facility will be powered entirely by Tajikistan's renewable hydropower, leveraging the country's position as holder of over 60 percent of the region's hydropower potential. This initiative is central to the nation's ambition to become Central Asia's emerging hub for AI compute, pre-training, and inference workloads.
The new data center is designed to deliver high-density AI compute services for enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions. It will also support startups by providing access to AI clusters equipped with the latest NVIDIA GPUs. By operating solely on renewable energy, the project supports the government's broader strategy to establish Tajikistan as a green AI compute hub, with a committed allocation of power for long-term capacity and scalability.
The partnership merges darya.ai's expertise in sustainable infrastructure and local integration with Yotta's experience in developing cost-efficient, high-density data centers and operating a sovereign, high-performance AI cloud platform. Together, the companies aim to deliver next-generation infrastructure optimized for large-scale AI training, research, and enterprise applications.
“The collaboration with Yotta represents a key step in realizing Tajikistan’s vision to build sovereign, sustainable compute infrastructure,” stated Kristina Zaalishvili, COO of darya.ai. “This project will not only strengthen regional AI capacity but also create new opportunities for high-skilled employment in AI engineering, operations, and research.”
Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, MD and CEO of Yotta Data Services, commented, “At Yotta, we believe AI must be both accessible and sustainable, and our partnership with darya.ai is a step forward in turning that vision into reality. By pairing our AI compute capabilities with darya.ai’s ecosystem and infrastructure support, we’re laying the foundation for a future-ready AI hub in Central Asia.”
The partnership is expected to empower new AI applications across sectors such as healthcare, finance, energy, and public services, enabling Tajikistan and the broader Central Asian region to participate directly in next-generation AI innovation.
The Darvoz facility marks the first phase of a multi-stage plan to position Tajikistan as a strategic bridge between South Asia and Central Asia in the global AI supply chain. This development follows darya.ai's recent launch of the country’s first NVIDIA H200 GPU cluster, which was inaugurated under the patronage of Tajikistan's President, H.E. Emomali Rahmon, in June 2025.
Through this collaboration, darya.ai and Yotta aim to deliver scalable, energy-efficient compute infrastructure that enables governments, enterprises, and research institutions to train and deploy AI models responsibly and affordably.
SOURCE communicationstoday
