NVIDIA’s New AI System Powers Armenia’s First Big AI Data Center

NVIDIA’s New AI System Powers Armenia’s First Big AI Data Center

Quick Read

• Firebird has opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory, in Hrazdan, Armenia.

• The site runs on the NVIDIA DSX platform, which combines computing, networking, power and cooling into one system.

• Firebird plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of capacity by the end of 2027.

• Kazakhstan is set to host a similar facility as part of a roughly 2-gigawatt regional roadmap.

• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan both attended or commented on the launch.

Firebird, the US-based AI cloud company building the site, officially opened the plant in Hrazdan on Saturday, with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and US Chargé d’Affaires David Allen all in attendance.

The NVIDIA DSX platform is the engineering backbone of the project. Rather than treating chips, networking, power and cooling as separate purchases, DSX integrates accelerated computing, networking, power and cooling as one codesigned system. According to NVIDIA, that design lets Firebird run up to 40% more GPUs on the same physical footprint, squeezing more value out of every megawatt of power.

The scale of the buildout is significant

NVIDIA said Firebird 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, positioning the country as a regional hub for AI research and advanced computing. The facility began operating with Nvidia B200 Blackwell GPUs, with additional generations to follow.

Armenia is just the starting point. Firebird is pursuing an approximately 2-gigawatt AI infrastructure roadmap spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan and additional markets, and NVIDIA has said it intends to invest directly in Firebird, following an earlier investment from CoreWeave. Kazakhstan’s own plans are already public: a “Data Center Valley” in the Pavlodar region, targeting 125 megawatts and a 2027 launch.

Jensen Huang framed the project in strategic terms, saying “AI factories are the infrastructure of the 21st century” and that the collaboration would help Armenia build lasting AI capacity.