#data-center-buildout

#data-center-buildout

Driving the news: Meta will buy millions of chips from Nvidia, ranging from standalone Grace CPUs to next-gen Blackwell GPUs and upcoming Vera Rubin systems, to use across its U.S. data center buildout. This makes Meta the first Big Tech firm to commit to buying standalone central processing units from Nvidia, which are used to run AI rather than train AI. This signals a shift toward inference over training, with the latter typically requiring more intense and expensive general processing units, or GPUs