By Katie Tarasov
Publication Date: 2026-02-17 21:15:00
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026.
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Meta will use millions of Nvidia chips in its artificial intelligence data centers, including Nvidia’s new standalone CPUs and next-generation Vera Rubin systems, in a sweeping new deal announced Tuesday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that the expanded partnership continues his company’s push “to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world,” a vision he announced in July.
Financial terms of the deal were not provided.
Shares of Meta and Nvidia climbed during extended trading on Tuesday. Advanced Micro Devices stock sank about 4% on the news.
In January, Meta announced plans to spend up to $135 billion on AI in 2026. “The deal is certainly in the tens of billions of dollars,” said chip analyst Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies. “We do expect a good portion of Meta’s capex to go toward this Nvidia build-out.”
The partnership is nothing new, as Meta has been using Nvidia graphics processing units for at least a decade, but the deal marks a significantly broader technology partnership between the two Silicon Valley-based giants.
Standalone CPUs are the biggest new thing in the deal, with Meta becoming the first to deploy Nvidia’s Grace central processing units as standalone chips in its data centers, as opposed to incorporated alongside GPUs in a server. Nvidia said it’s the first large-scale deployment of Grace CPUs on their own.
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