Data-center law in Armenia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

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Armenia has no data-centre-specific siting, permitting, environmental-review or utility statute; no dedicated land-use, energy-grid, water-utilities, construction or air-operations regime naming data centres was located in the sources reviewed.

The closest available instrument is the Law on State Support of the High-Technology Sector, Law No. HO-498-N (2024), a payroll-tax incentive programme open to any registered economic entity or individual entrepreneur the Government classifies as engaged in high-technology activity; it is an employment-incentive measure rather than a data-centre-specific siting, permitting or utility statute, and it says nothing about electricity grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions.

Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Public agreements

What fiscal agreements attach a data center to its host jurisdiction?

Law on State Support of the High-Technology Sector

In force

Law of the Republic of Armenia on State Support of the High-Technology Sector, Law No. HO-498-N (2024)

Effective 2025-01-01 · Applies to private

This Law establishes the basic principles of state support for Armenia's high-technology sector, adopted by the National Assembly on 2024-12-04 and signed by the President on 2024-12-17 as Law No. HO-498-N, in force from 2025-01-01 until 2031-12-31 (Art. 14(1)). The Government defines, by classifier of economic activity, which activities qualify as high-technology for the programme (Art. 5(1)).

A qualifying economic entity or individual entrepreneur receives state support equal to 60 percent of the income tax calculated on the wages of a labour migrant employed in professional work, and equal to 60 percent of the income tax calculated on the wages of a newly hired employee (Art. 5(4)(1)-(2)); a lower, 50 percent rate applies to the income tax on wages of an employee undergoing professional retraining for the qualifying activity (Art. 5(4)(3)).

The Law regulates employment-related payroll-tax support rather than siting, permitting, environmental review, or utility access for a physical facility such as a data centre; no provision of the Law addresses electricity grid interconnection, water use, or air emissions.

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