An AI cloud startup backed by NVIDIA and CoreWeave has switched on its first major facility, a site in Armenia that the company bills as the biggest of its kind in the CIS region.
Firebird opened the Hrazdan data center over the weekend on the strength of NVIDIA’s DSX platform and Dell PowerEdge servers. By the end of 2027 the company expects to have 70,000-plus Rubin and Blackwell accelerators deployed there, with 300 megawatts of power behind them.
The investor lineup is a who’s who of AI infrastructure. CoreWeave put money into Firebird earlier this year, and NVIDIA has now said it plans to invest as well. The startup claims its builds fit up to 40 percent more GPUs per footprint, improving tokens per dollar and per megawatt.
Government officials turned out for the launch, including Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev and US charge d’affaires David Allen. Firebird co-founder Alexander Yesayan says the company is aiming for about 2 gigawatts of capacity worldwide within two years, with Armenia, Kazakhstan and other frontier markets on the roadmap.
Schneider Electric supplied power systems and Vertiv handled cooling. Perplexity is already using the site for its AI agent platform. Firebird says the facility took just over six months to build, making it an early test of whether NVIDIA’s full-stack AI factory model works outside the big hyperscale markets.
