Infographic 8.6.1
Architecture Grid
AI Infrastructure Architecture Layers
Cloud, edge, and centralised compute roles with representative providers and capabilities.
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Cloud
Hyperscale data centres, distributed training, elastic capacity.
AWS · Azure · GCP
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Edge
Latency-critical inference, 5G nodes, smart factories, IoT hubs.
Equinix · Akamai · Nokia
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Central HPC
National labs, frontier training clusters, exascale compute.
Frontier · EuroHPC · ISC
Caption: Layers coordinate global AI workloads from core training to edge inference