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AI Infrastructure foundations
Telco architects and engineers new to AI data centres.
Explain what an AI data centre is made of, how its compute, network, power and cooling depend on each other, and in what order one is built.
11 steps · about 68 min plus 7 interactive pages
- 01AI Infrastructure · 1.1What is AI Infrastructure?What the term means, and the journey behind every AI answer.25 min
- 02AI Infrastructure · 1.2The building blocksCompute, network, storage, power and cooling on one page.8 min
- 03AI Infrastructure · 1.3Who uses AI infrastructure, and why?Who builds and uses this capacity, and why that shapes the design.10 min
- 04AI Infrastructure · 1.5AI Infrastructure EcosystemThe companies that supply each layer.25 min
- 05AI InfrastructureArchitecture overviewWhat the architecture chapter shows, and in what order to read it.
- 06AI InfrastructureInside the AI data centreThe rooms of one data centre and the layered reference architecture.
- 07AI InfrastructureKey fundamentalsThe compute technologies that make the rack possible.
- 08AI InfrastructureThe compute rackOne rack, read through its physical, power, cooling and network views.
- 09AI InfrastructurePower and heat simulatorWhy rising compute density forces the move from air to liquid cooling.
- 10AI InfrastructureDC build simulatorBuild one data centre stage by stage, in the order it happens.
- 11AI InfrastructureAssessmentCheck what has stuck.