Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
NVIDIA Rev Lebaredian
Firebird just switched on the CIS region's biggest AI factory, in Hrazdan, Armenia, built with Nvidia chips and Dell servers. The plan: over 70,000 GPUs and 300MW of capacity by 2027, with Nvidia now looking to invest.
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Six months. That's roughly how long it took Firebird to go from plan to operational AI compute cluster in Hrazdan, Armenia — and the result is being billed as the largest AI factory in the CIS region. Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan showed up for the opening, alongside Kazakhstan's deputy PM Zhaslan Madiyev and the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Armenia, David Allen. That's not the guest list for a routine data center ribbon-cutting.
The scale of what Firebird wants to build here is the real story. The company says it plans to deploy more than 70,000 Nvidia Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027. Co-founder Alexander Yesayan framed it as part of something much bigger: roughly 2 gigawatts of capacity globally over the next couple of years, with Firebird deliberately chasing what he calls frontier markets rather than the usual hyperscaler hubs.
Underneath the headline numbers sits Nvidia's DSX platform, which treats computing, networking, power and cooling as one codesigned system rather than bolted-together parts. Firebird says that approach lets it run up to 40% more GPUs in the same physical footprint — which matters a lot when you're trying to squeeze maximum tokens out of every megawatt you can get your hands on, especially in a market where power isn't infinite.
Getting the physical plant up this fast required help. Schneider Electric handled the power infrastructure — switchgear, uninterruptible power systems, rack enclosures — fast enough to keep pace with the compute buildout. Vertiv built the cooling side, mixing chilled-water tech with its TrimCooler hardware and a centralized management system to keep thermal load in check as workloads shift. None of that is glamorous, but it's the difference between an announcement and an actual running facility.
Firebird isn't stopping at Armenia. It's pursuing an infrastructure roadmap of roughly 2 gigawatts spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan, and other markets it hasn't named yet, and it says Nvidia intends to invest in the company, following an earlier investment from CoreWeave this year. Early customers include Perplexity, which is tapping the Armenia facility for its AI agent platform and answer engine — a sign that the compute is already finding buyers, not just sitting there as a monument to ambition.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Six months from groundbreaking to operational GPUs is the kind of speed that should make people in slower-moving markets uncomfortable, and the guest list at the opening — a prime minister, a deputy PM, a U.S. diplomat — tells you this is being treated as geopolitical infrastructure, not just a data center. Betting on frontier markets while everyone else piles into the same handful of hyperscaler regions is either shrewd or reckless, and with Nvidia reportedly circling as an investor, someone clearly thinks it's the former. The real test isn't the GPU count, though — it's whether Armenia's own developers and universities actually get meaningful access to this capacity, or whether it mostly ends up serving outside customers like Perplexity while local ambitions get the leftovers.”
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