Iozera has announced an agreement to acquire a fully operational 4.5-megawatt data center in Houston, Texas, with plans to expand and modernize it into a 10-megawatt, AI-focused multi-tenant hub. The facility is intended to serve as the first in a series of AI factories, supporting real-time inference and fine-tuning workloads for enterprise users. According to Iozera, the Houston site will be powered by NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) with a Rubin-ready roadmap, providing advanced support for AI deployment and allowing organizations to transition from experimentation to production-scale AI solutions.
Iozera’s model adopts an AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) approach, combining infrastructure, model intelligence, and human expertise. Each Iozera data center pairs high-density GPU clusters with a dedicated human workforce to supervise, label, and refine models in production. Iozera describes this as a “humans-in-the-loop” system, aiming for continuous real-time machine learning model updates.
The Houston facility will utilize ZutaCore’s HyperCool direct-to-chip, waterless liquid-cooling technology, supporting rack densities of up to 140 kW. Schneider Electric will contribute technical expertise in value engineering, efficiency, energy architecture, redundancy, and scalability for the AI factory design. Pegatron (Taiwan) will supply GPU server hardware and oversee integration, which Iozera reports will enable high-performance, energy-optimized deployments for AI workloads.
Iozera identifies healthcare as a target market for its Houston site, noting the concentration of clinical data and research at the nearby Texas Medical Center. The company claims its Kriss.ai large language model (LLM) platform is already deployed in hospitals and clinics, with ongoing development of the Doctor Digital Twin LLM for clinician-supervised applications.
Supporting its central AIaaS platform, Iozera notes a portfolio of applications including Kriss.ai, Chatli.ai, AI Mate, and Kickit.ai, as well as a partnership with Southeast Asia’s MCV Group. The Houston site currently operates under a short-term leaseback with Men’s Wearhouse (Tailored Brands), which Iozera states demonstrates its retrofit strategy in creating AI capacity by acquiring and upgrading existing facilities.
Source: Iozera
