DESIGN & BUILD
CREDIT: META
One of Meta’ s temporary tent structures housing AI computing equipment
“ AI, and its inference and training needs, is still evolving, so our design needs to balance what we know today with what we might know in the future”
Meta, Company statement
Ongoing adaptation as a mindset Beyond temporary solutions, Meta has shown a willingness to completely overhaul its permanent facility designs and engineering approach.
The company paused construction on multiple projects in late 2022 to“ rescope” them for AI workloads, a decision that affected a dozen sites already under construction at the time.
In 2023, after this temporary hiatus, Meta then claimed its new designs were 31 % cheaper and would take half the time to build.
Since then, the company has needed to evolve its facility design to support new technology, hardware and building innovations – let alone the surging demand from AI in the past couple of years.
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