Meta Bets Millions on Nvidia Chips While Secretly Wrecking Their Own AI Hardware
KEY POINTS
- •Meta has signed a deal to expand its data centers using millions of Nvidia’s Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs.
- •The company plans to introduce Nvidia’s next-generation Vera CPUs to its data centers in 2027 for improved performance and efficiency.
- •Despite working on in-house AI chips, Meta faces technical challenges delaying their rollout, necessitating greater reliance on Nvidia hardware.
Meta, the tech giant wave-riding on a titan sea of data centers, just signed a multiyear romance with Nvidia—committing millions of Grace and Vera CPUs plus Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. This isn’t Meta dabbling; it’s their ‘first large-scale Nvidia Grace-only deployment,’ because who needs diversity when you can throw all your AI eggs in one shiny, power-saving basket? The plan includes summoning next-gen Vera CPUs in 2027, for when we all finally finish recycling our 2020 promises. Meanwhile, Meta’s own AI chip adventure is ‘stuck with technical challenges,’ which Financial Times delicately calls rollout problems—translation: dreams running on dial-up while Nvidia snickers. So while Meta’s future hardware is like me trying yoga—ambitious but painfully clumsy—they’re double-downing on Nvidia like it's the ultimate cheat code.
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Meta’s AI strategy: buy millions of Nvidia chips because their own ones are stuck in ‘technical challenges,’ aka creative procrastination on a silicon scale.
Meta’s plan: outsource their AI brainpower to Nvidia while their own chips 'tech-nically' fail in real life.
Nothing screams innovation like throwing cash at Nvidia processors while your own AI chip dreams file for a technical ‘timeout.’
Source: Theverge | Published: 2/18/2026 | Author: Stevie Bonifield
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