The American company Firebird, specializing in cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), has opened the largest data center in the CIS in Armenia. The Hrazdan facility, which took just over six months to build, is equipped with NVIDIA accelerators and Dell Technologies AI infrastructure.
The opening ceremony on Saturday was attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiev, foreign ambassadors, executives of international technology companies and major investors.
The development of the project was preceded by the signing in August last year of a memorandum between the United States and Armenia on cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies. In addition, in November 2025, Firebird received a US export license, which allowed it to supply advanced NVIDIA equipment to Armenia.
“Exactly one year after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Armenia with President Donald Trump on cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and technology, we see this major result,” Pashinyan said at an event dedicated to the opening of the data center.
The 15 MW flagship DC-1 facility is designed to house 6,000 NVIDIA B200 GPUs. Dell Technologies supplied the center with high-performance servers, Schneider Electric supplied power distribution equipment, three-phase uninterruptible power supplies and server racks, and Vertiv provided the cooling system.
The data center is built on the NVIDIA DSX platform, which combines computing and network resources and allows you to accommodate up to 40% more GPUs with the same available power.
“The data center is built on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory reference architecture and connected by the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet network. This architecture is designed to improve the cost-effectiveness of AI infrastructure by allowing up to 40% more GPUs to be placed in the same footprint and making the most of every MW of power,” Firebird said in a statement.
By the end of 2027, the company plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs in Armenia and increase the total capacity of the AI infrastructure to 300 MW, which is 20 times higher than the current figure. According to Firebird co-founder Alexander Yesayan, such a scale will make it possible to turn the project “into a strategic hub of the global AI economy.”
The computing power of the facility will be available to developers, startups, companies, universities and government agencies in Armenia.
“Just over six months ago there was an empty construction site here. Today it is the largest operating AI center in the region and the basis of one of the most ambitious programs for the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe,” said Yesayan.
At the same time, Firebird’s plans in Eurasia are not limited to Armenia. In Kazakhstan, the company has already been given access to 125 MW of power to host AI infrastructure in Data Center Valley. The project has been approved by the Kazakh government, and Firebird has received the necessary export approval from the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
With other projects currently under development in several markets, Firebird expects to bring its total infrastructure capacity to 2 GW by the end of 2028.
