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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 9, 2026Published at 3:02 AM EDT · New York
Armenia Opens a 15-Megawatt NVIDIA Cluster That Exists Because Washington Granted an Export Licence
Firebird's Hrazdan site runs 6,144 NVIDIA B200 chips today and targets more than 70,000 Blackwell and Rubin accelerators across 300 megawatts by the end of 2027.
Firebird, a United States-based AI cloud company, opened a data center in Hrazdan, Armenia on August 8 that NVIDIA describes as the largest AI facility in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pa…
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