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Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
Firebird, NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, CoreWeave and regional leaders mark a milestone in building AI infrastructure to support economic growth, scientific research and technological advancements.
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Firebird has launched an AI factory in Armenia built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure to provide high-performance computing for regional and global artificial intelligence workloads. The facility integrates power systems from Schneider Electric and cooling architectures from Vertiv to support sovereign AI model development, fine-tuning, and enterprise deployment.
Context of the Cooperation
Establishing national computing hubs requires integrating high-density hardware, power management, and thermal architectures capable of scaling across frontier markets. Developing sovereign AI capabilities demands localized processing infrastructure to support regional languages, specialized industries, and domestic research initiatives.
To address these computing and infrastructure demands, cooperation was established between Firebird, NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, Schneider Electric, and Vertiv. The partnership combines Firebird’s cloud platform execution with NVIDIA’s accelerated hardware, Dell’s server systems, Schneider Electric’s power distribution, and Vertiv’s thermal management frameworks. Strategic financial backing includes an earlier investment from CoreWeave and an intended direct investment from NVIDIA to support global infrastructure scaling.
Technical Solution and Responsibilities
The technological solution relies on the NVIDIA DSX platform, an end-to-end reference architecture that codesigns compute, networking, power distribution, and thermal management into a unified system. Responsibilities are distributed across technology partners based on specialized operational domains:
- Firebird operates the AI factory, provides cloud platform access, and oversees global deployment roadmaps.
- NVIDIA supplies the full-stack AI platform, including accelerated hardware architectures, networking, and software frameworks.
- Dell Technologies delivers the server infrastructure using Dell PowerEdge servers.
- Schneider Electric provides electrical power distribution systems, delivering medium- and low-voltage switchgear, three-phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units, and rack enclosures.
- Vertiv supplies the thermal management architecture, combining chilled-water technology, Vertiv TrimCooler heat rejection units, and the Vertiv iCOM CWM Chilled Water Manager for centralized cooling control.
At a system level, the NVIDIA DSX platform enables the facility to run up to 40 percent more GPUs within the same physical footprint by optimizing power utilization across the hardware fleet, maximizing token output per megawatt. According to Alexander Yesayan, co-founder of Firebird, the company targets building approximately 2 gigawatts of computing capacity across global frontier markets within a two-year timeframe.
Deployment or Implementation
The initial operational facility, located in Hrazdan, Armenia, was delivered in just over six months. The implementation plan outlines scaling the Armenian site to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs across 300 megawatts of infrastructure capacity by the end of 2027.
The facility provides compute resources for domestic developers, startups, universities, and public institutions, while serving early AI-native enterprise customers such as Perplexity for its AI agent platform and answer engine. The project forms part of a broader 2-gigawatt infrastructure roadmap spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan, and additional frontier markets to establish scalable, high-density AI clusters globally.
Edited by Romila DSilva, Induportals Editor, with AI assistance.
Deployment or Implementation
The initial operational facility, located in Hrazdan, Armenia, was delivered in just over six months. The implementation plan outlines scaling the Armenian site to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs across 300 megawatts of infrastructure capacity by the end of 2027.
The facility provides compute resources for domestic developers, startups, universities, and public institutions, while serving early AI-native enterprise customers such as Perplexity for its AI agent platform and answer engine. The project forms part of a broader 2-gigawatt infrastructure roadmap spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan, and additional frontier markets to establish scalable, high-density AI clusters globally.
Edited by Romila DSilva, Induportals Editor, with AI assistance.
