# Artificial Intelligence Compute
**Aliases:** AI compute
**Entity class:** Computational infrastructure
## Definition
**Artificial-intelligence compute** is the combination of accelerators, servers, storage, networks, electrical power, cooling, software runtimes, and operating capacity used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, and run AI models. At hyperscale, compute is inseparable from energy, water, fiber, land, physical security, and supply chains.
## Relationships
- **civilian regional project:** [[wiki/Meta El Paso Data Center|Meta El Paso Data Center]].
- **Army-land commercial project:** [[wiki/Fort Bliss Hyperscale Data Center|Fort Bliss Hyperscale Data Center]].
- **defense cloud substrate:** [[wiki/Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability|JWCC]].
- **data and application substrate:** [[wiki/Open DAGIR|Open DAGIR]] and [[wiki/War Data Platform|War Data Platform]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [The White House — Executive Order 14318](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/accelerating-federal-permitting-of-data-center-infrastructure/)