Meta Halts Construction of Two Data Centers In Denmark

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta has halted construction of two data centers in Odense, Denmark, and will instead focus on a new type of data center used for artificial intelligence (AI), a spokesperson said on Thursday. Facebook-owner Meta already has two large data centers in Odense, but only one of the three other centers currently under development there will be completed. Construction on the two halted data centres in Odense began in August. However, on Tuesday Meta terminated the deal with contracting company Per Aarsleff worth 2.4 billion Danish crowns ($344 million). "Over the past month, we have announced a number of measures to make us a more streamlined organization," Meta spokesperson Peter Munster told Reuters. "A significant part of these measures is to shift a larger part of our resources to high-priority growth areas, including a strategic investment in artificial intelligence," he said.

The company's traditional data centers house servers for apps such as Facebook and Instagram. But the calculations needed for AI require a new generation of data centers, Munster said.

Meta is a disaster

[olsmeister]

I wonder how much in termination fees they will pay for this? They should stop trying to chase the latest shiny new thing, Zuck is going to run that company right out of business.

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[Opportunist]

Zuck is going to run that company right out of business.

Well, every cloud has a silver lining.

This is not good

[sir_smashalot_3rd]

Looks like Meta is having some problems to me.

AI data centre?

[votsalo]

What is a "data centre used for artificial intelligence?"

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[nicolaiplum]

That's what I want to know, and I want to know why Facebook's current datacentres are insufficient.

Facebook's current datacentres have some distinctive characteristics: ambient air cooling or evaporative cooling, rather than compressor refrigeration cooling ; quite wide temperature range ; optimised for their custom server hardware which is optimised for storage and low cost ; resulting very good (low) PUE.

Are Facebook going to change their datacentre design towards a higher-power, more mechanically cooled

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[gweihir]

Powered by bullshit instead of electricity....

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