Operational Announcement and Current Configuration
Attendees at the opening ceremony listed in NVIDIA's official blog include Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and U.S. Acting Charge d'Affaires to Armenia David Allen. Firebird is the operator of the facility. According to NVIDIA, this factory provides computational power for developers, startups, enterprises, universities, and public institutions to train, fine-tune, and deploy AI models; however, there are no publicly available figures on user numbers or scientific and commercial outcomes generated thus far. Neither announcement specifies whether these entities have already begun using the facility.
Firebird's official website currently describes its flagship facility in Armenia, DC-1, as equipped with 6,144 NVIDIA B200 GPUs, a power consumption of 15 megawatts, and liquid cooling technology. These are the current self-reported configurations by the company and not third-party acceptance conclusions. The same page on the website lists only DC-1 as Armenia's flagship node. The company has not disclosed the actual number of online GPUs, average utilization rates, customer loads, availability, or measured energy efficiency results; existing public materials also cannot confirm whether all equipment is simultaneously engaged in production tasks.
Architecture Supply Chain and Design Metrics
Firebird announced that the Hrazdan facility adopts NVIDIA's DSX AI Factory reference design and Spectrum-X Ethernet, deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers. According to an NVIDIA blog post, Schneider Electric provides medium-voltage and low-voltage switchgear, three-phase uninterruptible power supply systems, and racks; Vertiv supplies a cooling architecture that combines chilled water, control systems with TrimCooler technology. The scale of equipment installation, redundancy configuration, and current load have not been disclosed. This information can confirm the participating suppliers and the officially listed equipment composition but cannot replace external performance testing of the entire facility.
Firebird and NVIDIA also stated that the DSX design can deploy up to 40% more GPUs in the same footprint. This figure is a design metric mentioned in both parties' announcements, with no source provided for the baseline facility used for comparison, specific floor area, rack density, load conditions, measurement methods, or complete test data. There are also no third-party validation results available. Therefore, based on publicly available information, it can only be confirmed that the company has proposed this metric and cannot determine whether the Hrazdan facility has achieved the corresponding measured density or cost improvements.
Expansion Roadmap and Partnerships
In the subsequent phase in Armenia, Firebird plans to deploy over 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs by the end of 2027 and expand its AI infrastructure capacity to 300 megawatts. These quantities and capacities are part of the company's roadmap and do not reflect the current operational configuration. The roadmap does not specify the planned numbers for Rubin and Blackwell individually. Firebird has not disclosed equipment delivery schedules, construction milestones, funding sources, or commissioning arrangements for each phase; currently, only 6,144 B200 GPUs and a capacity of 15 megawatts are listed on its official website corresponding to DC-1.
Firebird also stated that Kazakhstan has become its second market, where the company has secured 125 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in Data Center Valley. This was achieved with the necessary approvals from the Kazakhstani government and export authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. Firebird combines Armenia, Kazakhstan, and other unnamed markets into a target pipeline of approximately 2 gigawatts by the end of 2028. NVIDIA has also announced its intention to invest in Firebird, noting that CoreWeave had already invested earlier this year; however, details such as investment amounts, equity stakes, closing status, and governance rights have not been disclosed. Perplexity is listed as one of the early customers by both announcements.
Capacity Conflicts and Fact Boundaries
Public sources present two sets of figures that cannot be combined. Firebird's website currently lists DC-1 at 15 megawatts, while June material from Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry describes the first phase as approximately 18 megawatts and says it will use more than 6,000 Blackwell GPUs. The government material also lists a project parameter of up to 110.6 exaflops, but provides no external measurement report. Firebird's phrase “the region's largest NVIDIA DSX AI factory” and NVIDIA's phrase “the CIS region's largest AI factory” use different limits, and the available sources provide no verifiable regional ranking list. This report therefore retains both capacity figures and both ranking descriptions.
As of publication, Firebird has not disclosed the factory's actual number of operating GPUs, utilization, customer workloads, revenue, availability, energy consumption, water use, or independent acceptance results. More than 70,000 GPUs, 300 megawatts, and approximately 2 gigawatts are all future roadmap figures; up to 40% more GPUs is an official design metric without a disclosed comparison baseline and cannot be presented as a current operating result. The terms of NVIDIA's proposed investment and CoreWeave's earlier investment also remain undisclosed. What can currently be confirmed is that the company has announced the Hrazdan facility as operational, along with the configurations, supply chain, customer relationships, and expansion plans disclosed by the participants.