Cloud provider Firebird has launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, built with NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure to power national AI development.
The facility, in Hrazdan, was opened by Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister of the Republic of Armenia, alongside Zhaslan Madiyev, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and David Allen, US chargé d’affaires, AI, in Armenia.
Firebird, an emerging AI cloud provider, said the site would give developers, startups, enterprises, universities and public institutions in Armenia the computing capacity to build and run AI models domestically rather than relying solely on services hosted abroad.
The company plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027. The project was delivered in just over six months.
The factory is built on the NVIDIA DSX platform, which integrates accelerated computing, networking, power and cooling as a single codesigned system. NVIDIA said the approach allows up to 40% more GPUs to run on the same footprint compared with conventional data centre design, increasing output per megawatt of capacity.
Alexander Yesayan, co-founder of Firebird, said: “Our ambition for what we are building in the next two years or so is roughly 2 gigawatts of capacity around the world. We’re very focused on merging into frontier markets.”
Firebird’s plans extend beyond the Armenia site to a roughly two-gigawatt AI infrastructure roadmap covering Armenia, Kazakhstan and other markets. The company also confirmed that NVIDIA intends to invest in the business, following an earlier investment from CoreWeave earlier this year.
Schneider Electric supplied the power infrastructure for the Hrazdan site, including medium- and low-voltage switchgear, three-phase uninterruptible power supply systems and rack enclosures, which the companies said allowed the power buildout to keep pace with the compute rollout.
Vertiv provided the cooling architecture, combining chilled-water technology, controls and its TrimCooler system, with its iCOM CWM Chilled Water Manager used to coordinate cooling resources as demand shifts.
Perplexity, the AI-native search and agent platform, is among the early customers using the facility’s infrastructure.
The Armenia AI factory is powered by NVIDIA’s AI factory platform, comprising reference architecture, accelerated computing, networking and software, and is deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers.
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