Firebird has officially switched on what it describes as the region's largest AI factory - a large-scale, NVIDIA-powered computing facility in Hrazdan, Armenia - alongside an announcement of ambitious global expansion plans, according to a report published on Firebird's own newsroom. The August 8, 2026 launch ranks among the largest single technology investment stories in Armenia's recent history.
The inauguration drew a notably high-profile guest list, including Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Vice President of Physical AI Simulation Rev Lebaredian, the U.S. Embassy's Chargé d'Affaires David Allen, and Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, alongside senior government officials, international ambassadors, and technology executives. Pashinyan tied the milestone to the anniversary of a U.S.-Armenia memorandum of understanding on AI and technology cooperation signed the previous year.
Built on NVIDIA's DSX AI Factory reference design and interconnected with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, the facility is designed to pack meaningfully more compute into the same physical footprint than conventional builds. Firebird has laid out a roadmap to scale the site beyond 70,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell GPUs by the end of 2027, expanding to roughly 300 megawatts of capacity - a scale the company says would place it among Europe's largest AI infrastructure platforms.
The build is backed by serious capital. Firebird announced that NVIDIA intends to invest in the company, following an earlier investment from CoreWeave, while Dell Technologies supplied the underlying infrastructure. Perplexity was named as one of the factory's first customers, planning to run its AI answer engine and digital-coworker platform on Firebird's infrastructure.
Armenia is only the first stop. Firebird has already secured 125 megawatts of capacity in Kazakhstan at Data Center Valley - its second market - backed by approvals from the Kazakh government and export authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Combined with several additional markets in development, the company is targeting roughly 2 gigawatts of global AI infrastructure capacity by the end of 2028, with Firebird's leadership framing the plan as a bet on frontier markets participating directly in the global AI economy.
Firebird Co-Founder Alexander Yesayan noted that the site went from a bare construction lot to "the region's largest operational AI factory" in just over six months - a pace the company points to as proof of its ability to deliver AI infrastructure quickly. NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and Dell Technologies' Michael Dell both framed the project as a model for how countries can build sovereign AI infrastructure and participate in the global AI economy.
Whatever its ultimate scale, Firebird's launch adds a striking data point to Armenia's investment story: within the same year, the country has drawn both a planned large-scale international fast-food franchise rollout and one of Europe's largest AI infrastructure builds - a signal that global capital is willing to place large, varied bets on the market at the same time.