{"id":299807,"date":"2026-09-22T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=299807"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:26:32","slug":"trumps-nvidia-deal-turns-armenia-into-surprising-ai-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/299807\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Nvidia deal turns Armenia into surprising AI hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Armenia is on track to become one of the world&rsquo;s top hubs for American AI infrastructure, Bloomberg writes.<\/p>\n<p>In August, a San Francisco-based startup called Firebird began operations of a data center in Armenia that&rsquo;s set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 cutting-edge Nvidia Corp. chips by the end of next year. A fifth of its computing power is reserved for domestic use &mdash; to power local research, government and startup ecosystems &mdash; with the remainder allocated to foreign firms, including US ones like Perplexity AI.<\/p>\n<p>The project played a role in securing a US-brokered peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan. President Trump&rsquo;s team promised permission for Nvidia exports to advance conversations with Armenia, according to people involved in the talks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia is on track to become one of the world&rsquo;s top hubs for American AI infrastructure, Bloomberg writes. In August, a San Francisco-based startup called Firebird began operations of a data center in Armenia that&rsquo;s set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 cutting-edge Nvidia Corp. chips by the end of next year. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299808,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299807\/revisions\/299808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}