{"id":39772,"date":"2025-10-26T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=39772"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:50:02","slug":"is-the-term-ai-factories-necessary-and-illuminating-or-marketing-hogwashutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/10\/26\/is-the-term-ai-factories-necessary-and-illuminating-or-marketing-hogwashutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Term &#8216;AI Factories&#8217; Necessary and Illuminating &#8211; or Marketing Hogwash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-179867802\">\n<div id=\"text-179867802\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tData centers were typically &#8220;hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring,&#8221; writes the Washington Post.  But &#8220;AI experts say that the hubs for computers that power AI are different from the data centers that deliver your Netflix movies and Uber rides. They use a different mix of computer chips, cost a lot more and need a lot more energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question is whether it&#8217;s necessary and illuminating to rebrand AI-specialized data centers, or if calling them &#8216;AI factories&#8217; is just marketing hogwash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\nThe AI computer chip company Nvidia seems to have originated the use of &#8220;AI factories.&#8221; CEO Jensen Huang has said that the term is apt because similar to industrial factories, AI factories take in raw materials to produce a product&#8230;   The term is spreading. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT parent company OpenAI, recently said that he wants a &#8220;factory&#8221; to regularly produce more building blocks for AI. Crusoe, a start-up that&#8217;s erecting a mammoth &#8220;Stargate&#8221; data center in Texas, calls itself the &#8220;AI factory company.&#8221; The prime minister of Bulgaria recently touted an &#8220;AI factory&#8221; in his country&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Alex Hanna, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute and co-author the book, &#8220;The AI Con,&#8221; had a more pessimistic view of the term &#8220;AI factories.&#8221;  She said that it&#8217;s a way to deflect the negative connotations of data centers. Some people and politicians blame power-hungry computing hubs for driving up residential electric bills, spewing pollution, draining drinking water and producing few permanent jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Term #Factories #Illuminating #Marketing #Hogwash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centers were typically &#8220;hulking, chilly buildings lined with stacks of computing gear and bundles of wiring,&#8221; writes the Washington&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39773,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772\/revisions\/39773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}