Legrand Delivers Digital Infrastructure for New AI Data Center at Yerevan State University
Limoges, France, June 23, 2026
Legrand, a global leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, has delivered the digital infrastructure for a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center at Yerevan State University, the Republic of Armenia’s largest and leading university.
The facility is home to a government-funded supercomputer equipped with 64 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and is designed to strengthen Armenia’s national capabilities in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC). The shared scientific infrastructure will support advanced research, accelerate innovation, and help modernize education and training across the country.
The AI data center was officially inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, during a high-level opening ceremony attended by senior government officials and university leaders, highlighting the facility’s strategic importance to Armenia’s digital and scientific development.
Yerevan State University required a modern, scalable, and energy-efficient data center capable of supporting advanced AI and HPC workloads while enabling future expansion. The facility was designed to provide capacity headroom for future GPU racks and to meet the highest European safety and efficiency standards.
Following a highly competitive tender process for the €3 million project, Legrand was selected to deliver a fully integrated data center infrastructure solution. Only vendors capable of providing complete, end-to-end solutions under strict technical and operational requirements were considered.
The data center was installed within existing university buildings, presenting significant challenges, including limited space, low ceiling heights, and complex routing requirements. The project required careful coordination to integrate power protection, power distribution, cooling, racks, and intelligent monitoring systems without compromising performance or reliability.
Despite these challenges, the data center was designed, verified, delivered, and installed within just six months, with only one month allocated for on-site installation, including setup, maintenance, and power supply connection.
Legrand delivered a fully integrated portfolio of data center solutions, including:
The integrated solution delivers high energy efficiency, 24/7 operational reliability, ease of maintenance, and scalability to support future growth as Armenia’s AI ambitions continue to expand.
System integration was carried out by ART-Group, a certified Legrand partner and UPS Service Center in Armenia. The successful delivery of the project has already contributed to additional Legrand data center deployments in the region, including facilities for financial services and AI.
The project also involved Legrand’s regional engineering teams. Arsen Pogossian, Director of Legrand Armenia, oversaw the installation of the Zucchini busbar system, while Alexey Ryizhenkov, Legrand Busbar Engineer, conducted the Zucchini busbar insulation testing. Igor Dmitriev, Legrand UPS Engineer, was responsible for UPS maintenance support.
“We are proud to have partnered with Legrand on this strategically important project,” said Ashot Berudjanyan, Corporate Solution Engineer at ART-Group. “With several new data center projects planned in Armenia from 2026 onwards, we look forward to continuing our collaboration.”
The Yerevan State University AI Data Center is the largest and most comprehensive data center solution delivered by Legrand to date in the CIS region. The project was made possible through close collaboration between Legrand’s global and regional teams, the university, and local partners.
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About Legrand Data Center Solutions
Running a data center involves navigating challenges at every level – from ensuring uptime to meeting sustainability goals and adapting to future demands. Legrand offers tailored grey and white space solutions at scale through its specialist brands, including Minkels, Raritan, Server Technology, Starline, and USystems. These solutions help optimize performance while enhancing reliability and operational efficiency.
Legrand’s agility and attention to detail are key to solving complex challenges and managing uncertainty. From innovating cooling systems to improving power usage and customizing layouts, the company combines precision engineering with forward-thinking design. But more than technology, we believe in the power of trust. Collaboration lies at the heart of its approach, ensuring solutions align with customer ambitions and long-term business goals.
Sustainability is central to Legrand’s strategy, ensuring that every improvement not only benefits operations but also reduces environmental impact. Choosing Legrand means choosing a partner dedicated to reliability, trust, and progress – delivering not just superior data centers but confidence for the future.
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About Legrand Group
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide.
The Group harnesses technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures, and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable.
Drawing on an approach that involves all teams and stakeholders, Legrand is pursuing a strategy of profitable and responsible growth driven by acquisitions and innovation, with a steady flow of new offerings that include products with enhanced value in use (energy and digital transition solutions: data centers, digital lifestyles, and energy transition offerings).
Legrand reported sales of €8.6 billion in 2024. The company is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG and CAC Transition Climate indexes. (code ISIN FR0010307819).
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