Nvidia Chips, Donald Trump Turn Armenia Into AI Hotspot
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Armenia’s emergence as an AI infrastructure hub shows how geopolitics and chip allocation can rapidly rewire where data centers land. If you depend on large-scale GPU capacity, map your vendors’ geographic exposure — including newer hubs like Armenia — against your own political and supply-chain risk tolerance.
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