The Wall Street Journal reports that Washington offered Yerevan access to Nvidia artificial-intelligence chips last year in exchange for signing a preliminary peace agreement with Baku, an arrangement tied to a planned $5 billion-plus Firebird data center in Razdan, Armenia.
The United States promised Armenia access to Nvidia artificial-intelligence chips last year if Yerevan signed a preliminary peace agreement with Azerbaijan, The Wall Street Journal reported. Construction of the Firebird data center began in the Armenian city of Razdan as part of the reported arrangement.
According to the report, the facility is projected to cost more than $5 billion and is planned to house 70,000 of Nvidia's latest-generation servers, with a total computing capacity of about 300 megawatts.
Yerevan and Baku have spent years trying to settle disputes in the South Caucasus that have periodically flared into fighting. Armenia's relations with Russia have also frayed after Moscow and the Collective Security Treaty Organization declined Yerevan's request for help during 2022 border clashes with Azerbaijan, and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan later said Russia could no longer be considered Armenia's strategic ally.
The report did not specify whether the chips have already been delivered or when the data center is expected to become operational.
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