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Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

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Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
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It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April, we found out that nearly half of the data centers that were supposed to open this year had been cancelled or significantly delayed — putting a bottleneck on an industry which will live or die by its ability to access AI chips.



The situation has grown so frantic that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has even started building tent-pole data centers with portable gas turbines, Michael Thomas

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