Firebird launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia, deploying over 70,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 megawatts of

The emerging AI cloud company Firebird opened its AI factory in Armenia today, establishing a new computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure. The opening ceremony was attended by Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister of Armenia; Zhaslan Madiyev, deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan; and David Allen, U.S. chargé d'affaires in Armenia.

AI factories form the foundational infrastructure for the AI era, providing the computing capacity needed to train, fine-tune and deploy AI models across domains at scale. While AI services are available globally, countries require the capacity to develop and run AI for their own languages, industries and national priorities. Firebird's facility brings this capability to Armenia, giving developers, startups, enterprises, universities and public institutions the compute to build and scale AI domestically.

Firebird intends 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, positioning the country as a center for AI research, advanced computing and innovation. The company's broader ambition is more ambitious. As co-founder Alexander Yesayan stated, "Our ambition for what we are building in the next 2 years or so is roughly 2 gigawatts of capacity around the world. We're very focused on merging into frontier markets."

Energy efficiency is central to the design. Built on the NVIDIA DSX platform, the AI factory integrates accelerated computing, networking, power and cooling as a codesigned system. The DSX platform enables Firebird to run up to 40 percent more GPUs on the same footprint, producing more tokens per dollar and extracting greater value from every megawatt of capacity.

Firebird is pursuing an approximately 2-gigawatt AI infrastructure roadmap spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan and additional markets with NVIDIA's support. NVIDIA has announced its intention to invest in the company, following an earlier investment by CoreWeave. These investments will support Firebird's global expansion and efforts to establish the largest and most advanced compute clusters across frontier markets.

The Armenia facility was delivered in just over six months, demonstrating Firebird's ability to convert ambitious infrastructure plans into operational AI capacity rapidly. Schneider Electric provided the power infrastructure supporting the facility in Hrazdan, delivering medium- and low-voltage switchgear, three-phase uninterruptible power supply systems and rack enclosures. Vertiv provided the cooling architecture, combining chilled-water technology, advanced controls and Vertiv TrimCooler technology for efficient heat rejection, with its iCOM CWM Chilled Water Manager centrally coordinating cooling resources.

Early demand is already emerging from AI-native companies. Perplexity is working with Firebird to access high-performance AI infrastructure for its AI agent platform and answer engine. As AI becomes essential infrastructure globally, Firebird's expansion has the potential to make the CIS region a magnet for companies building and running AI while catalyzing local developers, researchers and enterprises.