Firebird completes construction of the first phase of its AI factory in Armenia

Firebird’s mega-project in the field of artificial intelligence, which positions Armenia as the leading supercomputing hub of the Caucasus region, has entered the final stage of construction and equipment installation.

Armenia’s Minister of High-Tech Industry, Mkhitair Ayrapetyan, along with representatives of the tech community and journalists, visited the data center located near the city of Razdan for the first time. The tour of the construction site was conducted by Firebird co-founder Alexander Yesayan.

The complex covers an area exceeding 200,000 square meters. Upon commissioning, the first phase of the AI factory will be equipped with more than 6,000 NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units, providing computing power of up to 110.6 exaflops at a total capacity of 18 megawatts. The infrastructure is designed for developing AI systems, scientific research, engineering modeling, robotics, aerospace and biomedical technologies, as well as corporate computing tasks.

The data center features liquid and air cooling systems from Vertiv, Schneider Electric’s energy infrastructure, and a fiber-optic network from Team Telecom Armenia with a bandwidth of up to one terabit per second.

Mkhitair Ayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia

Alexander Yesayan, co-founder of Firebird

This is an initiative that will lay the foundation for a new technological economy in Armenia. Countries that today make bold investments in AI computing infrastructure will tomorrow set the rules of the game in the field of global innovation.

The investment volume for the first phase amounts to $500 million. Upon completion of the second stage, the total investment will reach approximately $4 billion, and the infrastructure will be expanded with more than 41,000 GPUs. The launch of the first phase is scheduled for July 2026. As part of the three-stage strategy, by the end of 2027, the total number of NVIDIA Blackwell and Vera Rubin processors will exceed 100,000 units.

Source: armenpress.am