According to sources, the United States offered Armenia incentives, including expanding licenses to purchase high-performance Nvidia chips for the Firebird data center in Hrazdan, in exchange for Armenia's support for a peace settlement with Azerbaijan, following a joint announcement between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents and US President Trump in August 2025 about the establishment of a 'Trump Route' for transport, energy and communications through Armenia.
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Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense for decades due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and recent years have witnessed attempts at international mediation to settle the conflict, especially after the outbreak of the 2020 war.
According to the sources, one of the incentives offered to Yerevan was to “extend the scope of chip procurement licenses” for the Firebird data center in the Armenian city of Hrazdan. American negotiators considered that Armenia would be more willing to agree to a peace settlement if it were offered closer economic relations with the United States.
The newspaper indicated that this includes licenses to purchase high-performance NVIDIA chips.
She added that the Firebird project developers expect to install 70,000 of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence servers, Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin, in the data center by the end of 2027.
“NVIDIA was a very important piece of this puzzle,” former US Ambassador to Armenia Christina Kvin told the newspaper.
Following a meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with US President Donald Trump at the White House on August 8, 2025, Aliyev and Pashinyan signed a joint declaration regarding a peace settlement between Baku and Yerevan, and the Armenian side agreed to cooperate with Washington and other parties to create a “Trump Way.”
This road aims to open transportation lines between the mainland of Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan Autonomous Region via Armenia. Pashinyan said that the "Trump Corridor" would include potential oil and gas pipelines, electricity lines, internet cables, and a railway line between Yerevan and Baku.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The first phase of the Firebird data center will be operational by the end of 2026
Likely · Within years
Implementation of the Trump Road infrastructure will begin in early 2026
Possible · Within years

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