Firebird, a U.S.-based AI infrastructure company, officially launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8. The initial phase features 6,144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across 15 megawatts on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory reference architecture. The launch was attended by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and U.S. officials.
Firebird's three-phase expansion targets more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of capacity in Armenia by end of 2027, with additional sites planned in Kazakhstan (125 MW) and other frontier markets. The company's global roadmap aims for 2 gigawatts by end of 2028. Using NVIDIA's DSX platform and Spectrum-X networking, the factory is designed to run 40% more GPUs in the same footprint.
Perplexity announced it will use Firebird's compute for its answer engine and AI coworker platform. NVIDIA announced it intends to invest in Firebird, following CoreWeave's earlier backing. The project represents a strategic bet on "sovereign AI" infrastructure—giving frontier markets independent capacity to build and train models locally.
This signals a geopolitical infrastructure race in AI compute. Architects planning frontier or regional deployments should monitor Firebird's utilization ramp and power-delivery cadence as a proxy for sovereign-AI demand and whether countries can sustain 300+ MW buildouts without stranded capacity.