Kazakhstan, the Ex-Soviet Republic that Aspires with Its Uranium to Be the Mecca of the Cryptic World and the Data

El Pais

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In Ekibastuz, an industrial city in northern Kazakhstan known for its coal, the government is betting $30 billion on an under-exploited idea: that the future of artificial intelligence depends on both geology and software. There, on an energy node inherited from the Soviet era, the current executive wants to raise a complex capable of climbing to a gigawatt of computational power—a figure that would place the Data Center Valley project in the le…