Electricity has traditionally earned its value when it reaches a factory, powers a household or crosses a national border through transmission infrastructure. Turkmenistan now faces an opportunity to challenge that conventional economic model by directing surplus electricity toward high-performance computing and potentially capturing a share of the expanding digital economy. The country’s emerging discussions around data center development introduce an industrial possibility that extends beyond improving electricity utilization or attracting technology investment. Instead of treating electricity as a commodity that requires another buyer, the country could treat it as an input for producing computational capacity that international customers increasingly need.