The Las Vegas Data Center Owner Switch is a new type of facility, the so-called AI factory, which is expanding its major presence in Southern Nevada.
Switch is developing the project on the southwest corner of Jones Boulevard-215 Beltway Interchange in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, near the existing data center. Plans for the new site require a data center warehouse of approximately 199,000 square feet and another facility, covering approximately 228,000 square feet, Clark County records show.
Construction is underway.
Switch Chief Strategy Officer Jason Hoffman told the Las Vegas Review Journal that the company is building an AI factory.
He said these facilities are smaller than typical data centers in Las Vegas Switch, but are packed with complex computing capabilities.
A typical data center is packed with servers and other gear needed to store client data. In comparison, AI factories are designed to enhance artificial intelligence systems, Hoffman confirmed.
These were Switch's first AI factories in Las Vegas, he said.
Founded by CEO Rob Roy, Switch operates data centers in Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Georgia. In 2022, the company was acquired by two investment companies with a contract worth around $11 billion.
Hoffman said the AI factory is being driven by Silicon Valley Tech Giant Nvidia's system design.
Leading by billionaire Jensen Fan, Nvidia manufactures chips and software for AI, making money amid the rapidly spreading use of artificial intelligence technology.
Nvidia booked profits of around $72.9 billion in the recent fiscal year, starting from about $4.4 billion two years ago, according to securities applications.
In a blog post in March, the company said that the AI factory is doing more than storing and processing data to “manufacture large-scale intelligence.”
“They adjust the entire AI lifecycle, from data intake to training, fine-tuning and most critically large amounts of inference,” he said.
In that project, Nvidia announced plans for a new AI factory in Saudi Arabia in May, saying the venture would “turn the country into a global powerhouse” for artificial intelligence and other technologies.
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