During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s smallest republic was an electronics and tech center for the Communist superpower. Now Armenia is on track to become one of the world’s top hubs for American AI infrastructure.
In August, a San Francisco-based startup called Firebird began operations of a data center in Armenia that’s set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 cutting-edge Nvidia Corp. chips by the end of next year. A fifth of its computing power is reserved for domestic use — to power local research, government and startup ecosystems — with the remainder allocated to foreign firms, including US ones like Perplexity AI.