Architecture
Cloud. Fog. Edge. One scheduler.
A 470 MW national-grade cloud core, 250,000 hotel back-of-house fog rooms and 5 million in-room GPU edge nodes — orchestrated by a single cross-border AI scheduler over gRPC, OpenAI-compatible, Triton and vLLM protocols.
Tier 1
470 MW
Cloud · Core IDC
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei · Greater Bay Area · 7 T4 liquid-cooled parks + overseas SEA / EU nodes
- Foundation-model training & long-cycle inference
- AD simulation, city brain, cloud offload
- PUE ≤ 1.15 · 20 kW/rack immersion cooling
Tier 2
250K Sites
Fog · Hotel BoH Nodes
Back-of-house racks inside 250K chain hotels · 4–16 mid-range GPUs each
- Nightly batch render & AIGC pipelines
- LoRA fine-tune, mid-scale offline analytics
- Off-peak power scheduling · PUE ≤ 1.2
Tier 3
5M Rooms
Edge · Hotel Room GPUs
RTX 4070 / 4090 edge servers in 5M esports & entertainment hotel rooms — auto-released on check-in
- AI image gen · short-form editing
- Cloud gaming · in-city safety inference
- Personal-dev model debug · lab-scale sims
Cross-border AI Scheduler
One control plane. All three tiers.
gRPCOpenAI-compatibleTritonvLLM
POST https://api.aether.compute/v1/inference
X-Residency: eu-only
X-Latency-Class: realtime
{ "model": "llama-3-70b",
"prompt": "…",
"affinity": { "region": "auto", "tier": "edge|core" } }
→ routed: fra-edge-07 · 14ms · H100·bf16 · GDPR ✓