Pakistan Pivots Toward Sovereign Bitcoin Policy
Pakistan allocated 2,000 MW of surplus electricity to Bitcoin mining and AI data centers, then announced a government-led Strategic Bitcoin Reserve days later.
On May 25, 2025, Pakistan announced that 2,000 megawatts of surplus electricity would be allocated in the first phase of a national initiative for Bitcoin mining and artificial-intelligence data centers. The move tied state energy policy directly to Bitcoin mining and framed unused power capacity as an economic resource for digital infrastructure.
Four days later, at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, Pakistan’s special assistant on crypto and blockchain announced a government-led Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The reserve announcement was a policy commitment rather than evidence that the government had already purchased Bitcoin, but it showed that the mining initiative was part of a broader sovereign Bitcoin strategy rather than an isolated data-center project.
Taken together, the May 25–29 sequence marked a rapid change in Pakistan’s public posture toward Bitcoin. The country moved from discussing digital-asset policy to allocating national energy resources for Bitcoin mining and publicly presenting a sovereign reserve concept. Consolidating the two steps captures one coherent policy pivot without overstating the reserve as an executed Bitcoin acquisition.