# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-09T07:02:50.434Z
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- Section: geopolitics
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/firebird-ai-factory-armenia-blackwell-rubin-dsx/), [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/firebird-opens-the-regions-largest-ai-factory-and-announces-global-expansion-302846589.html), [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/firebird-armenia-ai-factory-export-licence-compute-diplomacy)

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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