Day 4 — data centers and cloud infrastructure operators.

The conversation went deep fast.

1️⃣ Banks want cloud. Regulators say no. The Central Bank requires banking data to stay in government-certified data centers — which means every cloud provider hits the same wall the moment they go after the financial sector.

2️⃣ Uzbekistan is double landlocked. No direct access to undersea cables, internet traffic runs through a monopoly. For anyone building regional infrastructure, connectivity and redundancy are unresolved before anything else.

3️⃣ The data centers being built today need to be AI-ready tomorrow. GPU density, liquid cooling, serious power capacity — if the infrastructure isn't designed for it now, it'll need to be rebuilt.

Enterprise Uzbekistan is developing data protection acts aligned with GDPR standards. Tax exemptions and customs relief on equipment imports are part of the framework. Whether Enterprise residency can open a path for cloud providers to serve the banking sector — that's being worked through.

The to-do list got longer. Connectivity architecture, power roadmap for scaling to serious capacity, and how Enterprise rules interact with sector-specific data regulations — all of it goes back into the proposals.

CustDev wraps up today.

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