Firebird AI Joins UATE as Armenia Pushes to Become Global AI Hub
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Firebird AI has joined Armenia’s Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises as a strategic member, linking one of the country’s largest technology investments with an industry group that represents about 300 companies.
The announcement was made during UATE’s monthly gathering in Sevan and comes as Firebird develops a major artificial intelligence computing facility near Hrazdan.
The relationship between the two organizations dates back to 2024. Firebird co-founder and UATE board member Alexander Yesayan said early discussions around the project, as well as connections among its founders, began during WCIT-DigiTec, an international technology conference organized by UATE.
Firebird’s Hrazdan facility is being developed as a large-scale AI computing center. The first phase of the project represents more than $500 million in investment, with plans to eventually expand the site to 300 megawatts of capacity.
The company says the facility will host more than 70,000 NVIDIA Blackwell and Vera Rubin GPUs by the end of 2027, placing it among the largest AI infrastructure projects in Europe.
The project could also give Armenian startups, universities and research institutions greater access to the computing power needed to build and train advanced artificial intelligence systems.
UATE said the new partnership is intended to connect Firebird’s infrastructure with Armenia’s wider technology sector and create more opportunities for companies, researchers and entrepreneurs to work together.
“The community of companies and people brought together within UATE is the very driving force that enables us to move companies forward — whether it is our company, Firebird, or any other enterprise or startup,” Yesayan said. “We all have something to learn from one another, share, and support each other. In that sense, UATE is the best platform in Armenia.”
UATE Executive Director Edita Ghazaryan said Firebird has become an important part of Armenia’s technology ecosystem and that the organization plans to work with the company on broader industry initiatives.
“Today, Firebird is one of the most critical players in the Armenian tech ecosystem, and together we will implement large-scale initiatives to ensure this impact creates a multiplier effect across the entire industry,” Ghazaryan said.
The partnership comes as Armenia steps up efforts to establish itself as a destination for artificial intelligence development and high-performance computing.
That effort will also be a central theme at DigiTec 2026, scheduled for Nov. 20-22 in Yerevan under the banner “The World’s New AI Hub.” Organizers say the conference will bring together AI leaders from the United States, Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and other regions.
For Armenia’s technology sector, Firebird’s expansion could be a shift from building software and startups to hosting the computing infrastructure that increasingly powers the global AI industry.
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