Օn June 5, Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia, and Firebird AI Co-founder Aleksandr Yesayan visited the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) center near Hrazdan. Accompanied by tech community members and journalists, they reviewed the project's progress ahead of its upcoming official launch.

In the first phase of the project, the official launch of which is scheduled for July, the investment volume amounts to 500 million USD By the end of the second phase, total investments will reach approximately 4 billion USD, and more than 41,000 GPUs will be added to the infrastructure, positioning  Armenia among the world's top five leaders in AI computing power.

 Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan highlighted the importance of effective public-private partnerships. He noted that the project positions Armenia as a regional tech hub, enabling both local and international companies to conduct the most complex AI computations directly within Armenia.

In this context, a key milestone was the signing of a highly strategic document in Washington on August 8, 2025. This agreement enabled private sector partners, in coordination with the Government, to capitalize on these arrangements as quickly as possible.

"This megaproject is not just a powerful infrastructure, but a vital cornerstone of Armenia's future tech economy," the Minister stated. "Our strategic goal is to transform the country into a global 'garden of AI factories,' where massive computing power, local talent, and an innovative ecosystem complement each other. Thanks to Firebird, Armenia is shifting from being a consumer to a country that offers high-tech AI products and solutions to the world, ready to set the rules of the game for the future."

Aleksandr Yesayan, Co-founder of Firebird AI, noted that creating an infrastructure of this scale for a country like Armenia would have seemed unrealistic just a few years ago. However, the project is now nearing completion, laying the groundwork for the country's new tech economy.

"Just ten months after the initial announcement, we are entering the final phase of the project," Yesayan said. "Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the world's most important strategic resource. The countries boldly investing in computing infrastructure today will be the ones setting the rules of the game for global innovation tomorrow."

Constructed on an area of 200,000 square meters, the AI center is poised to become the region’s largest data processing center for artificial intelligence. Upon its official launch, the infrastructure will utilize more than 6,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, operating with a capacity of 18 megawatts and delivering up to 110.6 exaflops (FP4 Tensor) of computing power.

This megaproject shall secure the necessary computing capacities required for the development of advanced AI systems, scientific research, complex engineering simulation, robotics, aerospace and biomedical technologies, enterprise computing tasks, as well as the advancement of next-generation smart applications.

The water-cooling system operates on a closed loop and, according to technical specs, requires a water change only once every few years. The project’s communication infrastructure is powered by Team Telecom Armenia, utilizing a unique, next-generation network (NGN) fiber-optic system that delivers up to 1 Terabit per second bandwidth.

Firebird is an AI cloud and infrastructure company operating in the US and Armenia. Its mission is to democratize access to advanced AI computing, enabling innovation across both the private and public sectors.