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Firebird Opens NVIDIA DSX AI Factory in Armenia as U.S.-Backed Compute Buildout Scales

September 22, 2026 at 00:43 EDT

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Firebird has opened an NVIDIA DSX AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, putting the small Caucasus country at the center of a U.S.-aligned push to expand AI infrastructure beyond traditional cloud hubs. The company says the site will scale to more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity by the end of 2027.

Aug. 8, 2026 · Firebird

Armenia enters the AI compute map

Firebird opened an NVIDIA DSX AI factory in Hrazdan and plans to scale the Armenian site into a major GPU hub by the end of 2027.

70,000+

planned NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs in Armenia

300 MW

target AI infrastructure capacity by end-2027

2 GW

broader Firebird roadmap across frontier markets

$25M

five-year Armenian government compute purchase

Capacity target triples from the earlier 100 MW plan

100 MWearlier plan

300 MWend-2027 target

Each block represents 100 MW of planned AI infrastructure capacity.

What the buildout connects

U.S. approvals

Advanced NVIDIA hardware cleared for Armenia

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Hrazdan site

DSX design, Dell servers, power and cooling systems

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AI users

Perplexity, local startups, universities and researchers

Upside

Frontier-class compute could give Armenian researchers and startups local access to AI infrastructure that is usually concentrated in larger cloud markets.

Open questions

The project's durability depends on power execution, cooling, customer demand and whether the infrastructure creates lasting local technical capacity.

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