Meta Inks Multibillion-Dollar Deal for Hundreds of Thousands of AWS Graviton Chips

Meta has signed a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement to deploy hundreds of thousands of AWS Graviton5 chips to power its next-generation agentic AI workloads. These custom, Arm-based CPUs will allow Meta to orchestrate complex AI tasks while using 60% less energy than standard processors. To offset the massive capital expenditures required for this infrastructure expansion, Meta recently announced a 10% global workforce reduction, highlighting the industry's costly but necessary shift toward advanced CPUs for AI development.

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