Data-center law in Kazakhstan
National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06
Kazakhstan has no data-centre-specific siting, permitting or utility statute; a data-centre project draws on the Entrepreneurial Code's general investment-preferences regime (Law No. 375-V, Chapter 25) and, since 10 July 2026, on the Digital Code's general technical requirements for a data-processing centre as a digital-infrastructure object.
The Entrepreneurial Code's priority-activity list that gates access to an investment agreement is set by a separate Government resolution, not read within this visit's budget, so whether data-centre construction is named as a priority activity, and any electricity-tariff or crypto-mining-specific rule the dispatch's own leads pointed to, were not reached.
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Instruments on record
2 instruments on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.
Energy and grid
What authorizations govern grid connection and onsite generation?
Digital Code, data center infrastructure requirements
In force
Digital Code No. 255-VIII (9 January 2026), Arts. 25-26
Effective 2026-07-10 · Applies to both
Article 25 defines a digital-infrastructure object as the set of material, technical and technological means that provide the placement and operating environment for digital objects, and names data-processing centres, telecommunication networks and communication facilities among them.
The data-processing centre article that follows requires a data centre to have engineering, energy, telecommunications and technological infrastructure sufficient to ensure its uninterrupted, fault-tolerant and secure operation, and permits a data centre to undergo a national or international technical audit under a procedure the authorised body sets in agreement with the National Security Committee; a data centre hosting state digital resources or restricted-access data is subject to further requirements the text names but does not itself spell out in the passage read.
These are general technical and security standards rather than a siting, permitting or utility-connection procedure, and the Code repealed the equivalent provisions of the earlier Law on Informatization (Arts. 13-3 and 13-4) on its own commencement.
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Public agreements
What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?
Entrepreneurial Code, investment preferences
In force
Entrepreneurial Code No. 375-V (29 October 2015), Ch. 25, Arts. 283, 285
Effective 2016-01-01 · Applies to private
Chapter 25 (State support for investment activity) sets Kazakhstan's general investment-preferences regime.
Article 283 defines investment preferences as targeted advantages available to a Kazakhstani legal entity implementing an investment project, or to a leasing company importing technological equipment for that project's benefit, granted under one of three investment contracts: an investment agreement, an investment obligations agreement, or a simplified investment contract, with tax preferences granted by decision of the authorised investment body on review of an application.
Article 285 sets the application procedure: the applicant submits an application and supporting documents to the authorised investment body, and preferences are granted on the basis of an investment contract concluded between that body and the applicant. Investment agreements are available only for priority activities on a list the Government approves by resolution, which this visit did not read, so whether data-centre construction specifically appears on that list is not established here.
A data centre would draw on this general regime rather than on any data-centre-specific incentive found in the Code's own text.
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