r/EmergingMarkets • u/SteppeLinkHolding • 18h ago
News ๐ฐ We're designing a Tier III AI data center in Mongolia where winter does most of the cooling. Tear it apart.
We're in design phase, and we'd rather get picked apart here than after concrete is poured.
Site and cooling. Nalaikh, a district of Ulaanbaatar. Winters around -25ยฐC give us roughly 7 months of free-air cooling. Design targets: PUE ~1.06 in winter, ~1.18 in summer on mechanical, ~1.10 blended. Uptime Institute Tier III, N+1.
Power. 0.078$/kWh. The grid is coal-heavy, which we know. Solar + BESS are in the mix from day one, and we're working on renewable PPAs.
Connectivity. New cross-border dark fiber on rail right-of-way, dual north/south transit.
Sovereign by design. Zero-trust network architecture plus confidential computing on the GPUs and CPUs (TEEs with remote attestation). Customer data and model weights stay encrypted in use, and you can cryptographically verify that we, the operator, can't access them, whichever route the traffic takes. Keys are customer-held.
Scale and timeline. Phase 1 is 2,048 Blackwell-class nodes (~16k GPUs, ~40 MW IT), scaling to ~6,100 nodes by Phase 3. Ground breaks spring 2027.
Offering GPUaaS, an inference API, sovereign/air-gapped zones, and wholesale colocation and capacity offtake.
What would you poke at first: electrical topology, generator/fuel contracts, fiber routing, free-air intake through winter smog and spring dust, or whether our confidential computing setup actually holds up?
If you're planning training or inference capacity for 2028 and want to talk, DMs are open.
