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Centre to provide valuable infrastructure, IT minister says
Speaking at the inauguration, Minister for IT and Telecom Shaza Fatima Khawaja termed the data centre “a step in the right direction”, saying that it provided Pakistan with the foundation of an infrastructure “capable of producing the most important economic unit today: token intelligence”.She stated that every opportunity in the future would be reliant on access to high performance computing — including in healthcare, agriculture, economy, financial services, education, public administration and national security.
The minister noted that according to McKinsey, the global demand for data centres would triple by 2030, while according to Goldman Sachs, power requirements would also rise by 160 per cent by the same year.
“This is where Pakistan’s opportunity is extraordinary,” she said.
“We’re a young nation, we’re a large nation, and we’re a nation of stunning human capability.”
She highlighted that the country’s engineers, developers, researchers and entrepreneurs did not lack intelligence or ambition, but rather infrastructure — which the new data centre would provide.
