AiHPC Innovation's Private AI Journey: Balancing Performance, Compliance, and Control

This IDC Perspective explores AiHPC Innovation's (AiHPC) strategic deployment of private AI infrastructure in partnership with Equinix to support high-performance, regulated workloads in healthcare and research. It examines the motivations behind AiHPC's infrastructure decisions, technical architecture implemented, the operational benefits achieved, particularly in terms of performance, security, and data governance. Through an analysis of the challenges it faced and solutions it adopted, this document offers critical insights and actionable guidance for AI solution providers and enterprises evaluating public, private, or hybrid infrastructure models to support their AI initiatives."As AI becomes integral to regulated industries, such as healthcare, infrastructure decisions are no longer only about cost or scale; they are also about control, trust, and long-term strategic alignment. AiHPC's private AI deployment with Equinix sets a compelling precedent for how enterprises can operationalize AI at scale without compromising compliance or performance," says Dr William Lee, senior research director on datacenters and telecommunications, IDC Asia/Pacific.