TECHTARGET:
Businesses are rethinking their data center infrastructure from the ground up to support generative AI capabilities. Traditional data centers focused on optimizing storage arrays, VM placement on CPUs, ethernet connectivity and the provisioning of relatively low-power systems. AI data centers shift the focus to optimizing data pipelines; AI training, fine-tuning and inference across GPUs and high-bandwidth interconnects; and the provisioning of significantly higher-capacity power delivery systems.
“AI has completely transformed the role of the data center,” said Jennifer Skylakos, managing partner and head of sustainable infrastructure and energy at consultancy DHR Global. “It’s about delivering sustained, high-density compute at a scale that traditional facilities were never designed to support.”