""The reason I don't call it a data center is that a data center is a place where people store data," Huang said during a CES keynote. "These AI factories are completely different from data centers," Siemens CEO Roland Busch told reporters at the show. "They consume more energy, need liquid cooling, and cannot be controlled with normal building controllers - they need industrial-level controls.""
"Others, however, seem to use the word to mean something smaller than a data center, referring more to the servers, software, and other systems used to run AI. For example, the AWS AI Factory is a combination of hardware and software that runs on-premises but is managed by AWS and comes with AWS services such as Bedrock, networking, storage and databases, and securit"
The term "AI factory" is used in multiple, often inconsistent ways to describe AI infrastructure. Many operators and vendors use the term to mean specialized data centers optimized for AI hardware, with greater energy consumption, liquid cooling, industrial controls, and physical changes such as heavier concrete. Some definitions emphasize data-center design tailored for AI-specific servers and simulations to optimize power, cooling, and server placement. Other usages refer more narrowly to the server, software, and management stack that runs AI workloads, including managed on-premises offerings that bundle hardware with cloud services like Bedrock, networking, storage and databases.
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