From AI factory to AI production
2 september 2026, DCPedia, Marco Verzijl
Article: From AI factory to AI production (machine translated from Dutch)
The Netherlands is rightly investing in a national AI factory. At the same time, new research by ABN AMRO shows that traditional data centre development is increasingly clashing with limits to power, grid capacity, water, space and public support. It is precisely between these two developments that there is room for a different approach: central AI development where scale is needed, and modular production inference where data, energy and user come together.