
AI factories are factories: Overcoming industrial challenges to commoditize AI
If you were to travel 60 years back in time to Stevenson, Alabama, you’d find Widows Creek Fossil Plant, a 1.6-gigawatt generating station with one of the tallest chimneys in the world. Today, there’s a Google data center where the Widows Creek plant once stood. Instead of running on coal, the old facility’s transmission lines bring in renewable energy to power the company’s online services.