Server Farms, Data Centers, AI Factories, Oh My!

Peggy Smedley and Al Ortega, James R. Birle endowed chair professor of energy technology, Villanova University and director of the National Science Foundation Center for Energy Smart Electronic Systems, talk about what’s driving growth in data centers. He says to think about the data centers as being the infrastructure heart.

They also discuss:

• Why the name changed from server farms to data centers—and a fun historical story.
• The physical architecture and size of a data center.
• NVIDIA’s AI factory and what comes out.

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