Govt to Upgrade AI Infrastructure Across Public Sector in 3-Year Plan

The federal government has launched a major initiative to strengthen artificial intelligence infrastructure across the public sector by deploying high-performance computing resources and advanced AI systems within government-managed data centers.

Under the plan, the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) has signed a three-year agreement with Data Vault Pakistan to provide High-Performance Graphics Processing Unit as a Service (GPUaaS) and Model as a Service (MaaS) for government institutions.

The initiative aims to accelerate AI adoption across public-sector organizations while ensuring that sensitive government data remains hosted in Pakistan under Pakistani jurisdiction.

NTC will deploy enterprise-grade NVIDIA licensed GPU hardware, including the H200, A100 and B200 series, at its secure, government-operated data centers.

The infrastructure will support artificial intelligence training and inference workloads and host several large language models, including Llama 3.1, GPT OSS 20B, Qwen3 32B, Kimi K2, as well as text-to-speech services within NTC’s managed environment.

According to NTC Managing Director Maj Gen (R) Ali Farhan, the project is designed to reduce reliance on public cloud infrastructure while providing government institutions with secure AI computing capabilities. He said locally hosted computing resources are critical for protecting Pakistan’s digital sovereignty and supporting future government AI applications.

Data Vault Pakistan will implement the project and provide operational support, enterprise AI infrastructure, and a 99.9 percent service availability commitment.

The company said the initiative is intended to support the government’s efforts to expand AI adoption, strengthen national digital infrastructure, and improve the delivery of digital public services.