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Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs idle in Meta's Prometheus cluster

Original: Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus

Meta's Prometheus supercluster is reportedly holding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs that sit unused, reserved purely as standby capacity in case other machines fail. The arrangement highlights the scale of Meta's AI infrastructure buildout and raises questions about the cost of keeping expensive hardware on standby rather than running active workloads.

Why now: Readers are debating the enormous cost of dedicating scarce Nvidia GPUs to redundancy rather than active AI training.

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• Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus · rbanffy · 9

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