DataCenterDynamics, one of the data center industry’s most established global titles, has published a third piece on Akashi. This time it focuses on three pillars of trust for international clients assessing a facility still under construction: a technical audit, institutional financing, and a transparent legal jurisdiction.
The previous DCD write-up on this site: Central Asia as a new territory for digital infrastructure.
The article How Kazakhstan’s Akashi Data Center is building trust ran on 11 November 2026. It describes AKASHI Data Center PLC as building a 100 MW data center in Astana and answering three questions through independent institutions: whether operations can continue if the grid fails, whether the project is protected from the risk of remaining unfinished, and which jurisdiction would govern disputes.
Technical audit: Tier IV TCDD
According to DCD, after a preliminary audit of the engineering design the company has positioned the facility under construction as Central Asia’s first Tier IV data center under the Uptime Institute classification.
In March 2026 Uptime Institute awarded the project Tier IV Certification of Design Documents (TCDD), confirming that the design meets the highest reliability level in that system.
The article lists the designed power topology: two independent 110 kV feeds in an active/active configuration, UPS with 5/4N redundancy, and generators sized for 12 hours of autonomous operation at full load.
DCD dates the first phase of the Akashi data center to 2027; the on-site audit for Tier IV Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) is expected then as well.
Institutional financing: EDB
DCD reports that in June 2026 the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) approved $90 million for the first phase. It estimates total investment in the project at about $230 million.
“Demand for data storage and processing capacity in the countries of the region is growing rapidly alongside the development of cloud services, digital platforms, and artificial intelligence-based solutions,” said Sergey Ignatov, senior managing director and head of the project division at the EDB.
In the article’s framing, backing from an international development institution is evidence that the project’s financial and business models have passed the bank’s due diligence.
AIFC jurisdiction
The founders of AKASHI Data Center PLC, DCD writes, registered the company at the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). That brings a special legal regime and the option to enter into contracts governed by the laws of a client’s jurisdiction.
The article ties the protection of commercial contracts to AIFC jurisdiction: a separate legal framework based on the principles of English common law, the independent AIFC Court, and the International Arbitration Centre (IAC). In that setting, DCD says, SLAs and MSAs can be structured in familiar international legal frameworks.
The three pillars of trust
The piece closes with a comment from Vladislav Minkevich, CEO of AKASHI Data Center PLC:
“Declarations alone cannot build trust among international customers in a new facility in Central Asia. We want to earn our customers’ trust long before the first server is installed — through technical audits, institutional financing, and a transparent legal jurisdiction.”
Full text: How Kazakhstan’s Akashi Data Center is building trust — DataCenterDynamics, 11 November 2026.