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Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day
Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence.
Meta to invest over $60B in AI data centers, starting with 'Prometheus' in Ohio
"We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, Meta's social media platform. "We're building multiple more titan clusters
Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?
We've reported on the rapid, almost-certainly-ecologically-unsound expansion of AI data centers before, but Meta appears to have taken things to the next level. And that level is camping.
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify in $8 billion Facebook privacy lawsuit
Investors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users’ personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica.
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