Nvidia and Foxconn are working together to build so-called "AI factories," a new class of data centers that promise to provide supercomputing powers to
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I can only imagine these are just crypto mining farms, but instead of running mining they train ai models

I mean, isn’t that just a normal datacenter, then? Those already exist, and Foxconn at least probably owns some.

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Yes, but probably more video card focused than running the biggest epyc or xeon processors.

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