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Tents at Meta’ s Prometheus facility in New Albany, Ohio
to draw more than 1GW of power by 2026. The structures represent a calculated trade-off between speed and traditional redundancy, utilising prefabricated power and cooling modules without backup diesel generation.
“ Meta is united around an ambitious mission: to build the world’ s largest AI compute infrastructure and enable personal super intelligence at scale,” said Rachel Peterson, Vice President of Data Centers at Meta, writing on LinkedIn.“ A cornerstone of this mission is the agility of our data centre strategy. We are laser-focused on operational excellence, ensuring we can bring online gigawattscale superclusters – like Hyperion and Prometheus – with incredible velocity and adaptability. I am proud to see our teams not just embracing change but actively driving it, taking thoughtful risks and breaking new ground every day.
“ To fuel this rapid expansion, we’ ve pioneered solutions to deploy new data centres in a matter of months— not years. We are building weatherproof‘ tents’ to house our GPU clusters. This approach challenges the status quo of our traditional data centre delivery, allowing us to move at unprecedented speed and demonstrating our spirit of innovation.
“ I am energised every day by the ingenuity, passion and purpose our teams bring to the table. Together, we’ re setting a new bar for what’ s possible in the data centre industry.”
The tent strategy highlights the impetus behind Meta’ s digital infrastructure development. Traditional data centres require 18 – 24 months to build and commission, timelines that simply do not align with the pace of AI development. By deploying temporary structures, Meta can bring computing capacity online in a fraction of that time.
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