Published: June 5, 2026 ⢠1:03 AM IST · Updated: June 5, 2026 ⢠4:35 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldnāt get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents.
The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI.
In a bid to cut construction time in half, Meta has built six tents ā or ārapid deployment structuresā as the company describes them ā outside of New Albany, Ohio, according to Michael Thomas, founder of Cleanview, which tracks data center deployments.
Thomasā findings arenāt totally new.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to The Information last year about his plan to use weatherproof tents to house the companyās multi-gigawatt data centers.