Yotta Data Services, a prominent data center provider from India, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with darya.ai Ltd, a provider of sustainable AI infrastructure from Tajikistan, to develop a green AI data center in Darvoz, a district in the north-western part of the Central Asian country.
In a press release, Yotta revealed that the new data center will deliver high-density AI compute services tailored for enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions, while also supporting startups with access to AI clusters equipped with the latest NVIDIA GPUs.
Yotta further said that the project would be powered entirely by Tajikistan’s renewable hydropower, and is in line with the government’s broader strategy to establish Tajikistan as Central Asia’s green AI compute hub. The country holds over 60 percent of the region’s hydropower potential and has committed to allocating power for AI development, ensuring long-term capacity and scalability.
The collaboration aims to advance Tajikistan’s national AI infrastructure strategy and contribute to the country’s goal of deriving five percent of GDP from AI by 2040.
“The collaboration with Yotta represents a key step in realizing Tajikistan’s vision to build sovereign, sustainable compute infrastructure,” said 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, Yotta Data Services said, “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 with the aim of enabling enterprises, governments, and innovators to access green, high-performance compute at scale.”
The partnership combines darya.ai’s expertise in sustainable infrastructure and local integration with Yotta’s experience in developing high-density, cost-efficient data centers and operating a sovereign, high-performance AI cloud platform that provides scalable GPU infrastructure for AI/ML, HPC, and advanced analytics, powered by renewable energy. Together, the two companies will deliver infrastructure optimized for large-scale AI training, research, and enterprise applications.
This partnership will also empower new applications across 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. It follows darya.ai’s recent launch of the country’s first NVIDIA H200 GPU cluster, inaugurated under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, H.E. Emomali Rahmon, in June 2025.