AI factories
3 articles
Energy and placementEnergy, power and placement: routing AI work to capacity
Power and grid connections, not chips, now limit where AI capacity can grow. This article sets out what the IEA, the US Department of Energy and EU rules say about data-centre electricity, and why routing flexible inference to where power and capacity already exist is a policy and engineering lever.
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Distributed computingFrom idle capacity to served inference: what operators need
Inference demand rises and falls through the day, so most AI capacity has spare hours. This article covers the five things a data-centre operator needs to sell those hours on an open network: machine identity, a trusted model supply, metering, proof of availability and direct settlement.
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AI factoriesUtilisation decides AI factory economics
An AI factory's accelerators cost the same whether they are busy or idle, so served work per installed accelerator is the number that matters. This article covers where utilisation is lost, and how matching demand across many operators recovers some of it.
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