ArmInfo. Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan met with Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev.
According to the government press service, Madiyev arrived in Armenia to participate in the official opening ceremony of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Factory, a joint venture between Firebird AI and the global technology company NVIDIA.
During the meeting, the parties discussed prospects for cooperation between the two countries in digitalization, AI, data centers, and other areas of mutual interest. They emphasized the importance of implementing joint projects with leading global organizations. As a reminder, this facility is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence computing infrastructure designed to train and run AI models, as well as perform large-scale and complex computational tasks.
The first phase of the AI facility, located near Hrazdan on an area of approximately 200,000 square meters, is planned to be equipped with more than 6,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with a capacity of approximately 18 MW. The investment volume for the first phase of this megaproject is $500 million. Subsequent phases of the project plan to significantly expand the infrastructure's computing capacity by equipping it with next- generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, thereby creating one of the largest clusters of advanced AI computing power in emerging markets.
In the second phase, the total investment will reach over $4 billion, and the infrastructure will be equipped with approximately 50,000 next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, creating the largest cluster of the world's most advanced AI processors in emerging markets. The first stage of the project plans to create approximately 100 permanent jobs, and in the second stage the number of employees is expected to increase to 300.
