In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings full of racks of computers are arising to fuel the AI race. These engineering marvels are a brand new species of infrastructure: supercomputers designed to coach and run large language models at mind-Âbending scale, complete with their very own specialized chips, cooling systems, and even energy supplies.
Hyperscale AI data centers bundle tons of of hundreds of specialised computer chips called graphics processing units (GPUs), reminiscent of Nvidia’s H100s, into synchronized clusters that work like one giant supercomputer. These chips excel at processing massive amounts of knowledge in parallel. Tons of of hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cables connect the chips like a nervous system, letting them communicate at lightning speed. Enormous storage systems repeatedly feed data to the chips because the facilities hum and whir across the clock.
