Pakistan will assign excess electricity of his national grid to Bitcoin (BTC) Mining activities and artificial intelligence centers (AI), according to the Crypto Council and Finance Ministry Bilal bin Saqib of the country.
As Reuters reported, the initiative follows the consultation with several mining companies and is part of a broader strategy to tackle structural inefficiencies in the energy sector, while promoting his position in emerging technologies.
The effort coincides with Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder of Binance, Being appointed as a strategic adviser To the Pakistan Crypto Council.
The report assessed documents that confirm ZHAO’s advisory role will include support for blockchain infrastructure, guidelines for legal frameworks and assistance with national crypto initiatives.
Power Surplus and Mining Site Planning
The Pakistan energy sector has experienced volatility due to high electricity rates and persistent overcapacity. The expansion of solar installations by consumers who want to reduce energy costs has a complicated national prognoses for the network and reduced industrial decrease.
As a result, the government is looking for roads to convert excess generation into economic productive activities.
Saqib said that the regional availability of surplus electricity will determine the location of mining centers. He noted that different provinces are already showing patterns of consistent oversupply, which can support localized mining activities without taxing the wider energy network.
He also emphasized the country’s ambition to diversify the use of excess energy, where AI data centers are mentioned as a parallel deployment. Of these facilities, it is expected to be continuous, high density calculation workload that can work in synchronization with the intermittent nature of the available surplus scheduled.
Conversations are underway with mining companies to determine infrastructure, energy-off-take agreements and compliance protocols.
Regulatory and educational expansion
The inclusion of ZHAO in the Advisory Council is part of a broader institutional push. His involvement will extend to the development of regulations, which sets up Sandbox environments with which fintech startups and crypto-related companies can work under limited supervision, while the policy is refined.
According to Saqib, Pakistan has between 15 to 20 million crypto users despite the absence of formal regulations. The country also applies as the third largest freelance economy worldwide.
This demography of users, combined with the expansion of internet penetration and a ripening fintech sector, are central to the focus of the government on blockchain and crypto as areas for structured growth.
SAQIB argued for Upskilling programs in Blockchain and AI was aimed at the youth population. These initiatives are intended to position the country as an exporter of digital services and at the same time generate employment opportunities in technically aligned fields.
The educational outreach is expected to focus on blockchain engineering, defi-infrastructure and AI modeling, to support the needs of domestic industry and cross-border export of services. The use of Bitcoin mining as a sink for overproduction of electricity reflects a pivot point in national policy for validly under -utilized infrastructure.
The latest sites elections and partner announcements are awaiting the completion of assessments of regional energy availability and compliance with new technical standards.
