Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center | TechCrunch
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- Zuckerberg said Hyperion’s footprint will be large enough to cover most of Manhattan.
- Hyperion will be located in Louisiana, likely in Richland Parish where Meta previously announced a $10 billion data center development.
- Meta plans to bring a 1 GW super cluster, called Prometheus, online in 2026, making it one of the first tech companies to control an AI data center of this size.
- The effort could also help Meta attract additional talent, who may be drawn to work at a company with the computational needs to compete in the AI race.
Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday [+2813 chars]
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