AMD Dedicated Servers And Cloud Infrastructure for AI Projects in North Carolina
In a rapidly evolving technology market centered on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software automation, it is important for organizations to have access to AI-ready servers and cloud infrastructure hosted at the edge — as close to application users as possible.
Amazon recently announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand its AI capabilities and provide supercomputing for various business sectors, including IT infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. Separately, AWS — the world’s largest cloud service provider — signed a $38 billion AI deal with OpenAI. $11 billion of that will go toward an AI-focused data center campus in Indiana.
Microsoft, one of Amazon’s biggest competitors, announced plans to invest approximately $80 billion in AI-enabled data centers. Over half of this investment will be allocated to its U.S. facilities.
These are just a few examples of the hundreds of billions of dollars that corporations are investing in AI projects and related data center infrastructure. Within the next few years, most software applications are expected to use artificial intelligence algorithms, which may improve technology-based workflows overall.
There are two key factors that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must consider. First, corporate AI software and AI-based infrastructure ecosystems will increase SMBs’ dependency on proprietary technologies, thus increasing overall expenditure on hosting and using software as a service (SaaS)-based, AI-powered applications. Second, models for building and delivering AI-based IT infrastructure and automation technologies will become centralized in a few U.S. states and regions worldwide.
Meanwhile, most modern applications require instant delivery with the lowest possible latency for data traveling between data centers that host AI infrastructure and application users. This is where application hosting at the edge comes in. In the computing infrastructure industry, “edge” means that data is stored and processed as close to the location where it is collected as possible.
With over 110 data center facilities, North Carolina has the potential to create the infrastructure necessary to power AI applications for users statewide and in neighboring states. However, many of these data centers are already in use and lack the capacity to accommodate all future local AI infrastructure requirements. North Carolina is strategically located in the Southeast. This allows local providers to deliver AI-powered infrastructure not only statewide and in the Southeast, but also to the Eastern and Midwestern United States.
AI-Ready Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Options
HostColor (HC) is a popular U.S. managed hosting infrastructure service provider that delivers AMD dedicated servers from North Carolina data centers with technical and system administration support for hosting and powering AI projects from North Carolina–based data centers.
HostColor offers AI-ready bare metal and cloud infrastructure delivered from Charlotte data centers. These environments are connected to 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps bandwidth ports, which can provide instant application delivery throughout the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metropolitan area. They offer up to 10 millisecond latency to other major metropolitan areas in the southeastern United States.
Fully Dedicated Bare Metal and Cloud-based Server Environments
HostColor’s AI-ready Charlotte Dedicated Servers are single-tenant computing environments that can be provisioned on demand. Available as bare metal or cloud-based servers, they can be configured with the Microsoft Windows operating system, a Linux distribution, or enterprise virtualization technology such as Proxmox VE or VMware ESXi. These servers can be used with metered data transfer or with unmetered bandwidth options ranging from 250 Mbps to 10 Gbps. “Unmetered bandwidth” means the provider does not measure or limit data transfer. This can allow customers to use the full physical capacity of their internet connection port at most edge cloud locations.
Customizable Charlotte-Hosted Server Configurations
Users can configure their Charlotte-hosted bare metal or cloud-based servers with Linux or Microsoft Windows operating systems; SSD or NVMe storage; custom VPN deployments; and combinations of IPv4 and IPv6 addressing. HostColor customers can also choose VDS machines powered by advanced processors and AI acceleration technologies designed to support a wide range of AI-driven workflows.
Cost-Efficient Servers With Unmetered Bandwidth
Users of HostColor’s Charlotte, NC-based server environments benefit from unmetered bandwidth and unlimited data transfer up to the full capacity of their Internet network connection. The company does not charge for Internet traffic, IOPS, DNS lookups, DNS zones, traffic zones, or infrastructure technical support, enabling substantial cost savings. All HostColor Dedicated Hosting and Cloud infrastructure plans allow customers to build technology environments fully compatible with major hyperscale cloud infrastructures, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Free Infrastructure Technical Support (FITS)
HostColor provides complimentary technical support for the core functionality of its North Carolina–based bare metal and cloud server infrastructure. Under its Service Level Agreement (SLA), each server includes Free Infrastructure Technical Support (FITS), covering the essential operations of virtual network interfaces. FITS does not include OS maintenance, custom configurations, or assistance with installed software applications — these fall under the provider’s Semi-Managed support level.
Semi-Managed Dedicated Servers
In addition to FITS, HostColor’s entire bare metal and cloud-based server lineup is designated “Semi-Managed” under the SLA. The company is responsible for installing and configuring server instances based on the customer’s custom Linux OS infrastructure requirements. Upon request, HC Support can reinstall operating systems, adjust and manage network configurations, create and maintain VPNs and assist with troubleshooting OS-level, network or software-related server issues.
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This story was originally published January 2, 2026 at 11:18 AM.