Gul Ahmed Energy Group in partnership with Huawei Pakistan is expected to build a data centre and a technology park in Pakistan to support the country’s digital transformation, according to a press release.
The venture, titled Quantum Global Data Centre (QGDC), will be Pakistan’s largest Tier III data centre and is expected to operational in 2027 with an initial investment of $230 million, Bloomberg reported.
The project’s investment could rise to $600 million over the next three to four years.
Speaking at the Q Summit, QGDC Chairman Danish Iqbal said that, although Pakistan was still in the early stages of AI adoption, it was already spending between $700m and $800m annually, warning that demand for computing power would rise sharply in the coming years, Dawn reported.
“Right now, with this minimal AI, we haven’t even started,” he said. “For our economies to grow, we need to go to very high AI compute. And that compute, without data centres, we will not be able to do.” He warned that Pakistan could end up importing billions of dollars’ worth of computing capacity and data services if domestic infrastructure is not developed.
He said the country’s local demand for data centre capacity was already significant and would continue to increase as businesses, hospitals, educational institutions and digital services migrate to cloud-based systems.
