Amazon announced a new product Tuesday called “AI Factories” that allows big corporations and governments to run its AI systems in their own data centers. Or as AWS puts it: customers supply the power and the data center, and AWS plunks in the AI system, manages it, and can tie it into other AWS cloud services.

The idea is to cater to companies and governments concerned with data sovereignty, or absolute control over their data so it can’t wind up in a competitor’s or foreign adversary’s hands. An on-prem AI Factory means not sending their data to a model maker, and not even sharing the hardware.

If that product name sounds familiar, it should. That’s what Nvidia calls its hardware systems that are chock full of tools needed to run AI, from its GPU chips to its networking tech. This AW

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