Scaling the Intelligence Frontier: From GPU Scarcity to Production Sovereignty
As AI workloads evolve from massive foundation model training to distributed inference and specialized fine-tuning, the underlying infrastructure must adapt or become a bottleneck. Traditional hyperscalers often struggle with the bespoke power, cooling, and data orchestration requirements of the modern AI stack.
Adam Jones (VAST Data) and Konstantinos Mouzakitis (Nscale) broke down the architectural requirements for the next generation of AI. This session explored the transition from raw GPU capacity to a holistic "AI Cloud" strategy. We dove into the physical realities of liquid cooling and rail-optimized networking, the rise of edge cloud deployments for data sovereignty, and the operational talent required to move models from experimental labs into global production environments.
What you will learn:
How to navigate the shift from large-scale training to distributed enterprise inference
Architecting for performance: Overcoming power, cooling, and networking hurdles at the thousand-GPU scale
Why specialized AI Clouds are outperforming hyperscalers through bespoke software layers and data-first orchestration
The operational realities of "AI at scale" and the talent gap in production AI engineering