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Eleveight AI's initial live capacity at its AI Factory in Armenia was fully allocated within a month of launch, and the company has begun expanding the site.
The first live capacity at the Gagarin facility was 1.5MW. The next stage of Phase 1 is under way and is expected to take the site to 5MW by year-end, with a further 35MW planned in Phase 2 for total capacity of 40MW.
Located in Gagarin, Gegharkunik Province, the project is described by Eleveight AI as the first deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell systems in Armenia and the South Caucasus. The site is the first stage of a USD $120 million investment programme, of which USD $70 million has already been deployed.
Demand for AI computing infrastructure has risen as companies, researchers, and public bodies seek local or regional systems that meet data handling and security requirements. Eleveight AI said demand has come from customers in Armenia and international markets.
The site is built around 512 NVIDIA Blackwell B300 graphics processing units across 64 NVIDIA HGX B300 systems. It is intended to support AI training, fine-tuning, inference, generative AI, and machine learning workloads.
Arman Aleksanian, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eleveight AI, said: "The response has moved faster than we planned for. Our first capacity was taken up within weeks, and we are already building the next phase. It tells us something simple: the demand for sovereign, high-performance AI compute in this region is real, and it is here now. Our job is to scale responsibly and keep Armenia at the centre of where advanced AI gets built."
The site is available through dedicated and shared access models. Eleveight AI added that 20% of total computing capacity has been set aside under partnership terms for Armenian universities, research institutions, and non-commercial initiatives.
Source: Data Center News UK
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