Hosting Large Datasets for Data-intensive AI Workloads

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When working with large datasets for data-intensive AI workloads in a cloud environment, you need services that provide scalable storage and powerful data processing capabilities. Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform offer various services that are well-suited for such scenarios.

In this context, services such as Amazon S3 for storage, AWS Glue for data cataloging, and Amazon SageMaker for building, training, and deploying machine learning models could be used. For the sake of providing a hands-on example, I will utilize Google Cloud resources because we have matching services provided by `pulumi_gcp` and `pulumi_google_native` packages that allow dataset hosting and processing by creating resources like BigQuery jobs, AI Platform datasets, and Dataflow templates, amongst others. These resources help in querying and analyzing large datasets, as well as managing metadata and performing data transformations.

Here's a Pulumi Python program that sets up a basic Google Cloud BigQuery job and an AI Platform dataset for hosting large datasets suitable for AI workloads. This program assumes that you already have your Pulumi CLI and Google Cloud setup configured:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# Create a new Google Cloud BigQuery dataset
bigquery_dataset = gcp.bigquery.Dataset("my_bigquery_dataset",
    dataset_id="my_dataset",
    description="Dataset for AI Workload",
    location="US"
)

# Assuming we have data in Google Cloud Storage that we want to load into our BigQuery dataset
data_uri = "gs://my_bucket/data.json"  # Should be updated with your actual Google Cloud Storage URI

# Define a BigQuery job that loads data from the Google Cloud Storage into the BigQuery dataset
bigquery_job = gcp.bigquery.Job("my_bigquery_load_job",
    job_id="my_load_job",
    job_reference=gcp.bigquery.JobJobReferenceArgs(
        project=pulumi.config.require("project"),  # Set your GCP project in the Pulumi config
        location="US",
    ),
    # Configuration for loading the data into the BigQuery table
    load=gcp.bigquery.JobLoadArgs(
        source_uris=[data_uri],
        destination_table=gcp.bigquery.JobLoadDestinationTableArgs(
            dataset_id=bigquery_dataset.dataset_id,
            table_id="my_table",  # Specify your table id here
        ),
        source_format="NEWLINE_DELIMITED_JSON",
        write_disposition="WRITE_TRUNCATE",  # Overwrites the table data if it exists
    ),
)

# Create a new Google Cloud AI Dataset
ai_dataset = gcp.vertex.AiDataset("my_ai_dataset",
    display_name="My AI Dataset",
    metadata_schema_uri="gs://google-cloud-aiplatform/schema/dataset/metadata/image_1.0.0.yaml",
    project=pulumi.config.require("project"),  # Set your GCP project in the Pulumi config
    region="us-central1",
)

# Export the IDs of the created resources
pulumi.export("bigquery_dataset_id", bigquery_dataset.dataset_id)
pulumi.export("bigquery_job_id", bigquery_job.job_id)
pulumi.export("ai_dataset_id", ai_dataset.id)
```

In this code snippet:

- We create a BigQuery dataset which will hold the data.
- We then define a job to load data into the BigQuery dataset from a Google Cloud Storage URI (make sure to replace this URI with your actual data location).
- We create an AI Dataset using Vertex AI which can interact with data models and help in creating machine learning solutions.
  
Each of these resources is created with unique identifiers and can be referenced through the IDs exported at the end of the program. This Pulumi program brings us an environment where we can have our large datasets hosted and processed ready for AI workloads.

Please ensure that your Google Cloud project identifier is set in the Pulumi configuration as this example requires it (`pulumi.config.require("project")`). This program does not include the detailed steps of setting up Pulumi with your Google Cloud account or the provision of your actual data sources. It is also important to understand that this is a simplified example and real-world scenarios might require additional configurations and security considerations such as IAM roles and permissions.