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Firebird Opens the Region's Largest AI Factory and Announces Global Expansion

The company said the flagship site runs 6,144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs and is the first step in a planned multibillion-dollar expansion.

  • On Saturday, US-based AI cloud company Firebird opened the region's largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and US Chargé d'Affaires David Allen.
  • Following a February 2026 meeting with US Vice President JD Vance, Firebird received authorization for 41,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, enabled by the US export license secured in November 2025.
  • Utilizing the NVIDIA DSX platform, the factory currently operates on 6,144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across 15 megawatts, with plans to scale to 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs by end of 2027.
  • AI-Native company Perplexity is Firebird's first customer, using the infrastructure for its answer engine, while CoreWeave and NVIDIA have committed investment to the project.
  • Firebird is pursuing a two-gigawatt global roadmap by end of 2028 spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan, and additional frontier markets, positioning the company as one of the world's fastest-growing AI infrastructure networks.
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Armenpress broke the news in Armenia on Saturday, August 8, 2026.
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