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Hidden Factory: Industrial Tech Ontologies

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Technology Area 24 Milestones

Data Center Power & Behind-the-Meter Generation

Generation and storage sited at or next to AI/cloud campuses so the load does not wait on a transmission queue. Common stacks pair gas turbines or engines with on-site BESS; some designs add behind-the-meter solar. Hyperscalers and developers announced multi-hundred-megawatt gas+BESS campuses in 2025–2026 to serve rack-scale AI halls.

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Gigacasting & Large-Scale Die Casting

High-pressure aluminum die-casting of very large single-piece structural vehicle components (also megacasting, hypercasting, unicasting). Typical presses 6,000–9,000 tons locking force; consolidates stampings/welds for EV lightweighting. Tesla pioneered three-piece chassis with structural battery pack between front/rear castings (eliminating 350+ stamped parts on Model Y lineage). Equipment suppliers include Bühler (Carat series), IDRA, and LK Machinery.

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Rackscale AI Accelerators

Fully co-designed rack- and POD-scale AI systems that combine accelerators, host CPUs, scale-up fabric (NVLink-class domains), and scale-out networking in one thermal/mechanical package. Lineage runs from multi-GPU HGX/DGX boxes through Grace Hopper NVL32 domains to liquid-cooled 72-GPU racks (GB200, GB300, Vera Rubin) and competing racks such as AMD Helios. NVIDIA, AMD, and OEM rack builders (Dell, Supermicro) ship the current generation for AI-factory halls.

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