Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers | TechCrunch

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News Summary
- Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion.
- Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s literally erecting tents for temporary data center capacity while its facilities are still under construction.
- Meta spokesperson Ashley Gabriel tells TechCrunch that it will be located in Louisiana and will likely have a capacity of 2 gigawatts by 2030.“This design isn’t about beauty or redundancy.
- It's about getting compute online fast!” SemiAnalysis said in its report.
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