AI is changing data centers, transforming them from cost centers to AI factories that deliver ROI, with new approaches to how they are designed, built, cooled, and operated “It's basically not a data center, it's an AI factory that we're building, focused on a product; just like any factory, it's producing tokens,” says Dr. Ali Heydari, director of data center cooling and infrastructure at Nvidia. It is therefore only logical for AI data centers or AI factories to invest in their own power sources, power generation facilities, and grids to maintain a high level of uptime while reducing the impact of power outages.