{"id":127088,"date":"2026-06-06T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=127088"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:17:51","slug":"gul-ahmed-announces-230m-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/127088\/","title":{"rendered":"Gul Ahmed announces $230m data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KARACHI(National Times)- Quantum Global Data Centre (QGDC), a venture of the Gul Ahmed Energy Group, announced plans on Thursday to develop Pakistan\u2019s largest Tier III data centre, which is expected to become operational in 2027 with an initial investment of $230 million,\u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project\u2019s investment could rise to $600 million over the next three to four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement came as QGDC signed a strategic partnership agreement with Huawei Pakistan to develop the facility and a science and technology park to support Pakistan\u2019s digital transformation, according to the press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, with this minimal AI, we haven\u2019t even started,\u201d he said. \u201cFor 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.\u201d He warned that Pakistan could end up importing billions of dollars\u2019 worth of computing capacity and data services if domestic infrastructure is not developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are at that stage that if we don\u2019t take this chance right now, we will miss this boat,\u201d Mr Iqbal said. \u201cAnd this will be a very costly boat, which we will not be able to build.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speakers at the summit argued that investment in digital infrastructure could have an outsized economic impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI(National Times)- Quantum Global Data Centre (QGDC), a venture of the Gul Ahmed Energy Group, announced plans on Thursday to develop Pakistan\u2019s largest Tier III data centre, which is expected to become operational in 2027 with an initial investment of $230 million,\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reported. 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