We toured an AI data center to see how our stock names make these facilities work

The part of artificial intelligence that often gets overlooked lives inside data centers like CoreSite's sprawling complex just outside New York City. CEO Juan Font thinks of his company's facilities like shopping malls. "You have multiple stores sharing the same building, the same power, the same cooling, but in the digital sense, as opposed to having every company build their own data centers," Font told CNBC during a recent tour of CoreSite's NY3 facility in Secaucus, New Jersey. …