Original Source: Mustang News
Reporter: Jeremy Garza
Date: December 4, 2025
Link: https://mustangnews.net/ai-factory-cal-poly-nvidia/
Cal Poly is opening a $3 million AI Factory on campus that uses four supercomputing systems from NVIDIA, a California hardware company. Students and staff will have access to advanced computing resources found on only a few campuses nationwide, without the usual cost barriers.
“[The AI Factory] is going to be really transformational and unlike anything else in the [Cal State system],” Noyce School director Chris Lupo said at Cal Poly’s AI Convening. “This will place Cal Poly in a leadership position and think beyond tools like Chat GPT.”
The funding for the facility comes from Cal Poly’s Noyce School of Applied Computing, an interdisciplinary school that houses electrical engineering, computer science and software engineering. The investment covers installation, configuration, hardware, software licensing, enterprise support, training and technical consulting, according to university spokesperson Keegan Koberl.