<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Meta is rapidly expanding its AI hardware capabilities and has resorted to housing some of its AI data center hardware in tents to keep up with the pace of AI development.</li><li>A SemiAnalysis report revealed that Meta's tent-based infrastructure is set up due to the slow process of constructing traditional buildings to accommodate AI hardware, which cannot keep up with the speed of AI progress.</li><li>While a Meta spokesperson confirmed the use of tent-based infrastructure, it is likely that these tents house ancillary racks connected to a main cluster nearby, as cooling remains a significant challenge for such setups.</li><li>Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to build massive multi-gigawatt superclusters like Prometheus and Hyperion, aiming for operational efficiency and large-scale data processing capabilities, although the ecological impact of such rapid expansion remains a topic of concern.</li></ul>

Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?

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