MLOps & Infrastructure · intermediate · concept 208 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026
AI Data Centers & the AI Factory
Frontier training does not run on a server, it runs on a building. Thousands of accelerators wired by high-bandwidth interconnects, fed by megawatts of power and liquid cooling, scheduled as one machine. The industry calls these AI factories because they convert electricity and data into tokens, and their power budgets are now a real constraint on how fast AI can scale.
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- Jensen HuangNvidia
- Jeff DeanDiscovery Loop
- Clément DelangueHugging Face
- Satya NadellaMicrosoft
- Sundar PichaiAlphabet / Google
- Alexandr WangMeta
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Interconnect (NVLink, InfiniBand)Cluster schedulingPower & coolingCompute capexAI factory
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