Firebird AI Data Center (Armenia)

Firebird, an AI cloud startup backed by Armenia’s government, unveiled a $500 million plan in mid-2025 to build a 100 MW data center campus near Yerevan. The public–private venture is slated to launch operations in 2026 with thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell-generation GPUs dedicated to large-model training workloads. Armenian leadership has positioned the project as a strategic springboard for the country’s innovation economy, leveraging global partners like NVIDIA to establish sovereign compute capacity while cultivating an ecosystem for local researchers, startups, and industry adopters.