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MODULE 05 · INFRASTRUCTURE & ENERGETICS

Energy & Power Grid Infrastructure

The 2030 AI Factory Blueprint: Behind-the-meter Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), direct-to-chip closed-loop liquid cooling, Ultra Ethernet (UEC) fabrics, and gigawatt cluster energetics.

💡 EXECUTIVE ENERGETICS BRIEFING
Scaling gigawatt AI factories requires full-stack co-design across 5 layers. Behind-the-Meter (BTM) nuclear SMRs provide 100% zero-carbon baseload power directly to the site, bypassing multi-year public grid queues. Closed-loop liquid cooling drops Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) to 1.03 while cutting water usage by 95%.
🏷️ Plain-English Analogy (Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)): SMRs are like compact, factory-fabricated mini nuclear plants built offsite and plugged directly into a single AI campus, drawing ZERO electricity from the public residential grid.
GIGAWATT CLUSTER SIMULATOR

Data Center Baseload Power & PUE Calculator

Simulate cluster capacity, nuclear SMR baseload requirements, and liquid cooling PUE efficiency.

PEAK COMPUTE POWER DRAW 120 MW Direct IT equipment power consumption
TOTAL FACILITY POWER (WITH PUE) 123.6 MW Includes cooling & auxiliary infrastructure
REQUIRED SMR UNITS (50MW EACH) 3 SMR Reactors 100% Behind-the-Meter Zero-Carbon Baseload
COOLING TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

The Sealed Future: Closed-Loop Liquid vs. Evaporative Cooling

Cutting daily data center water usage by 95% while lowering PUE from 1.58 down to 1.03.

AI Data Center Cooling Comparison
TRADITIONAL EVAPORATIVE

5,000,000 Gallons / Day

Evaporates millions of gallons of municipal water daily as steam. Limited to 12kW per rack power densities.

PUE: 1.58 Air-Cooled Limit
CLOSED-LOOP LIQUID (SOTA)

22,000 Gallons / Day

Direct-to-chip (DLC) dielectric cold plates with dry heat exchangers. 95% Water Savings and supports 160kW+ per rack power density.

PUE: 1.03 160kW+ Rack Density
SLIDE INSPECTOR (13 SLIDES)

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The 2030 AI Factory Blueprint: Full-Stack Co-Design
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The 2030 AI Factory Blueprint: Full-Stack Co-Design

Layer 0 (Power): Nuclear SMRs for Baseload Compute
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Layer 0 (Power): Nuclear SMRs for Baseload Compute

Layer 0 (Power): Modern Reactor Molten Salt Architecture
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Layer 0 (Power): Modern Reactor Molten Salt Architecture

Layer 1 (Facility): Cooling the Gigawatt Data Center
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Layer 1 (Facility): Cooling the Gigawatt Data Center

Layer 1 (Facility): Heat Exchange & Liquid Plumbing
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Layer 1 (Facility): Heat Exchange & Liquid Plumbing

Layer 2 (Hardware): Compute Architecture (GB200/GB300 NVL72)
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Layer 2 (Hardware): Compute Architecture (GB200/GB300 NVL72)

Layer 2 (Hardware): Power Delivery & Rack Density
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Layer 2 (Hardware): Power Delivery & Rack Density

Layer 3 (Network): The RoCEv2 Bottleneck
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Layer 3 (Network): The RoCEv2 Bottleneck

Layer 3 (Network): Evaluating the AI Fabric (RoCEv2 vs InfiniBand vs UEC)
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Layer 3 (Network): Evaluating the AI Fabric (RoCEv2 vs InfiniBand vs UEC)

Layer 3 (Network): Mechanics of Ultra Ethernet Packet Spraying
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Layer 3 (Network): Mechanics of Ultra Ethernet Packet Spraying

Layer 4 (Software): Orchestrating at Scale with Slinky
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Layer 4 (Software): Orchestrating at Scale with Slinky

Layer 4 (Software): Topology-Aware Scheduling
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Layer 4 (Software): Topology-Aware Scheduling

The 2030 AI Factory Stack Synthesis
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The 2030 AI Factory Stack Synthesis