Firebird has launched an AI factory in Armenia, adding another regional hub to the global buildout of accelerated computing capacity.

NVIDIA said the facility is powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies infrastructure. Dell described the first phase as a $500 million cluster in Hrazdan using Dell PowerRack, Dell PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Firebird's own site says the flagship Armenian AI factory is powered by 6,144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across 15 megawatts.

The companies are framing the project around sovereign AI: giving local developers, companies, universities and public institutions access to compute inside the region rather than relying entirely on remote cloud capacity. Armenia's prime minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening, alongside officials from Kazakhstan and the U.S. mission in Armenia, according to NVIDIA.

Firebird's plan is larger than the first cluster. NVIDIA said the company aims 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. The site is built on NVIDIA's DSX platform, which combines compute, networking, power and cooling as a single data-center design.

For AI infrastructure buyers, the announcement is another sign that GPU capacity is moving beyond a few established cloud regions. The relevant question is not just chip count, but whether new regional clusters can deliver reliable power, cooling, networking and access terms for customers that need production-scale training and inference.