The first AI-ready sovereign cloud has been launched in Pakistan by Telenor Pakistan in collaboration with Data Vault Pakistan, enabling enterprises to securely access advanced GPU-accelerated computing and locally hosted AI infrastructure.
Pakistani enterprises and public institutions have relied on offshore cloud regions for AI workloads, raising concerns around data sovereignty and compliance.
The partnership is poised to accelerate Pakistan’s AI adoption across sectors such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, public safety, logistics, agriculture, and government services by providing the high-performance compute power and compliance-ready environment needed for modern AI applications.
This alliance resolves those challenges by offering AI training, inference, and data processing entirely within Pakistan’s borders, hosted inside Data Vault’s high-density AI data center.
The new cloud service guarantees full regulatory compliance and eliminates the need for sensitive datasets, including financial transactions, healthcare imaging, telecom data, and government records, to leave the country.
The new cloud platform enables enterprises to deploy machine learning pipelines, large language models (LLMs), video analytics, generative AI systems, and industrial automation with low latency, reduced bandwidth costs, and complete national jurisdictional control.
Mehwish Salman Ali, Chief Executive Officer, Data Vault Pakistan said that the new service provides every organisation a secure, local path from idea to inference – without sending data abroad.
This is how Pakistan moves from consuming AI to producing it.With sovereign GPU infrastructure now accessible locally, Pakistani researchers, startups, enterprises, and universities can develop national LLMs for Urdu and regional languages, sector-specific AI for fintech, health diagnostics, agri-tech, and smart cities, and AI-driven logistics and manufacturing automation.Global GPU shortages and high import costs have previously limited Pakistan’s ability to adopt enterprise-grade AI.
Through this partnership, Telenor customers will now gain on-demand access to GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) powered by NVIDIA-grade accelerators.
The initiative aligns with regulatory frameworks from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), healthcare data laws, and emerging national AI safety guidelines.
This empowers organisations to train and deploy advanced AI/ML models, run real-time computer vision and video analytics, build Urdu and regional-language AI models, and enable fintech fraud detection and AML automation.
The alliance positions Pakistan alongside global markets investing in sovereign AI clouds to power next-generation digital transformation.
The partnership marks a major shift from Pakistan consuming global AI technologies to producing indigenous, mission-critical AI solutions.
By keeping all data within Pakistan, the sovereign cloud strengthens cybersecurity defense, auditability and transparency, access control and identity management, privacy and digital trust, and national data protection.
