Eleveight AI’s data center in Gagarin, a highland town in Armenia’s Gegharkunik province, has fully booked its available computing capacity just a month after coming online, the company says — an early signal of how fast demand for regional AI compute is growing in the South Caucasus.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the site on August 1, touring the facility and reviewing plans for its next expansion phase, according to Armenia’s state news agency ARMENPRESS.
Inside the facility
The site runs on 512 NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs spread across 64 HGX B300 systems — the first deployment of that chip generation anywhere in the South Caucasus. Eleveight has deployed roughly $70 million of a planned $120 million first phase and says live capacity will grow from 1.5 megawatts today to 5 megawatts by year-end, with a second phase adding 35 more megawatts for a total of 40MW.
“The response has moved faster than we planned for,” CEO Arman Aleksanian said, according to the company. “The demand for sovereign, high-performance AI compute in this region is real, and it is here now.”
Set at nearly 1,900 meters of elevation, the AI data center uses free air cooling for 11 months of the year and reports zero water use for cooling, according to Eleveight. The company has set aside a fifth of its computing capacity for Armenian universities and research institutions — a step Economy Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan said would help Armenia become “not only a consumer… but also a producer and supplier” of AI infrastructure.
Part of a wider buildout
An Nvidia vice president described the project as part of a broader shift toward purpose-built “AI factories” — a model Japan adopted this year with a 27,500-GPU national facility also built with Nvidia hardware.
Eleveight, based in Armenia, says it plans to expand regionally and is positioning Gagarin as a hub for sovereign AI infrastructure serving customers beyond its home market, though it has not named specific countries or timelines for that expansion.