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Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs idle in Meta's Prometheus

Original: Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus

Meta's Prometheus supercluster is reportedly holding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs that sit idle, kept purely as hot spares in case of failures. The claim has drawn attention because of the enormous cost of the hardware and questions about how efficiently AI infrastructure budgets are being used.

Why now: The scale and cost of GPUs being reserved as spare hardware in an AI megaproject raises questions about AI infrastructure spending efficiency

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• Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus · rbanffy · 9

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