KARACHI: A team from US server and data centre giant Super Micro Computer Inc. (Supermicro) has visited Pakistan to conduct a feasibility study for deploying next-generation AI chips at Data Vault Pakistan’s Karachi facility.
The study is understood to focus on the possible deployment of Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell-class B200 and B300 accelerators, as well as the rack-scale GB300 NVL72 platform, which connects 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs into a single liquid-cooled system.
Supermicro, headquartered in San Jose, California, has been expanding its role in sovereign AI infrastructure globally. The company counts Telenor among its global ecosystem partners for sovereign AI and AI-RAN solutions. Analysts say this relationship creates a natural bridge to the Pakistani market through Telenor’s existing tie-up with Data Vault.
In the wider region, Supermicro signed a $20 billion multi-year agreement with Saudi Arabia’s DataVolt in 2025 to build hyperscale AI campuses.
However, whether Blackwell-class chips can ultimately be shipped to Pakistan will depend on US export authorisations. These approvals are assessed separately from Data Vault’s existing GPU approvals.
Data Vault Pakistan is the country’s first AI-ready sovereign data centre and GPU-as-a-Service provider. In December 2025, the company launched Pakistan’s first locally hosted sovereign AI cloud in collaboration with Telenor Pakistan, providing local enterprises in-country access to Nvidia enterprise-grade GPUs for the first time.
The company says it has secured more than 3,000 GPUs through official Nvidia-approved channels after clearing strict technical, compliance and financing checks required under US export-control rules. This is considered notable as Pakistan remains on the US restricted list for advanced chip exports.
According to industry figures, Pakistan currently spends an estimated $700 million to $800 million a year on foreign cloud and computing services. Locally hosted infrastructure could help retain this spending within the country while keeping sensitive national data inside Pakistan’s borders.
Data Vault is not the only player in the emerging data centre race. Gul Ahmed Energy Group’s Quantum Global Data Centre announced a $230 million Tier III data centre in partnership with Huawei last month. The facility is expected to become operational in 2027, giving Pakistan parallel US-aligned and China-aligned infrastructure tracks.
