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Meta will adopt hundreds of thousands of AWS Graviton chips in latest AI infrastructure grab

CNBC·Jordan Novet·about 1 month ago
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Around 3.6 billion people use Meta's applications every day, and the social networking company will be operating 32 data centers to handle the load with the completion of a new one in Oklahoma. But that's not enough. Amazon's cloud unit said Friday that Meta has agreed to use Amazon's general-purpose Graviton chips in a deal that will run for at least three years. The arrangement demonstrates Meta's willingness under CEO Mark Zuckerberg to splurge so it can meet high computing demand, alongside technology peers such as Alphabet and Microsoft . In recent weeks Meta has signed deals worth a combined $48 billion with CoreWeave and Nebius , both of which rent out access to Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs, that run AI models. Amazon didn't disclose the value of its Meta deal. Meta is counterbalancing infrastructure expansions with head count reductions. On Thursday the company announced plans to lay off around 8,000 employees , or 10% of its workforce.…

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