The rise of AI factories: Powering an era of pervasive intelligence

By Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys

For artificial intelligence to become the next great global economic engine, it will require an entirely new means of production.

Tech giants are betting hundreds of billions of dollars on a future powered by AI. By 2030, McKinsey projects investments of as much as $7 trillion in AI-related data centers — one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in history, surpassing previous technology booms in both scale and pace.

In India alone, Google is building a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam. Microsoft is expanding its cloud and AI footprint in Pune and Chennai and creating a new “India South Central” region in Hyderabad. In partnership with NVIDIA, Reliance Jio is developing a major AI data center in Jamnagar for nationwide GPU-as-a-service offerings. TCS is planning a 1-gigawatt AI data center, likely in Gujarat or Maharashtra, to support startups, hyperscalers ...