Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang envisions 24/7 AI factories transforming data centers and even society

Through the looking glass: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang really likes the concept of an AI factory. Earlier this year, he used the imagery in an Nvidia announcement about industry partnerships. More recently, he raised the topic again in an earnings call.

"The next industrial revolution has begun," Huang said in the Nvidia announcement. "Companies and countries are partnering with Nvidia to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center – AI factories – to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence."

Huang elaborated a bit more in the earnings call. "Just like we generate electricity, we're now going to be generating AI. And if the number of customers is large, just as the number of consumers of electricity is large, these generators are going to be running 24/7."

"Today, many AI services are running 24/7, just like an AI factory. And ...