Türkiye is trying to stand up sovereign AI infrastructure so local startups are not dependent on foreign cloud and GPU capacity.
Ena Venture Capital is using its early‑stage portfolio to seed this ecosystem, backing AI, cloud, and cybersecurity firms plus a dedicated infra play, Nuvena.
Orbina is a key signal: it runs agentic AI projects for finance and public sector and has built a Turkish LLM, which implies a need for local high‑performance compute and data residency.
Nuvena’s mandate is to add domestic data center capacity and an “AI layer” on top, positioning itself as a local alternative to hyperscalers for GPUs, storage, and networking.
The core driver is operational sovereignty: keeping model training, inference, and sensitive data inside Türkiye while giving startups a domestic base for scale.
There are no details yet on specific GPU vendors, energy strategy, or facility scale, but the direction is clear toward a vertically integrated, Turkey‑hosted AI stack.
The article is worth a read for tracking how emerging markets are pairing local language models with sovereign data center build‑outs.
Source: Türkiye Aims to Build Sovereign AI Infrastructure – Caspianpost.com
