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Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Key takeaways
- Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents.
- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the Information last year about his plan to use weatherproof tents to house the company s multi-gigawatt data centers.
- But Thomas images and review of local permits showcase the speed of construction and scale of the project.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and x AI.
In a bid to cut the time to completion in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid deployment structures” as the company describes them — outside of New Albany, Ohio, according to Michael Thomas, founder of Cleanview, which tracks data center deployments.
Thomas discovery isn t totally new. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the Information last year about his plan to use weatherproof tents to house the company s multi-gigawatt data centers.
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