Meta Builds AI Data Centers in Tents to Slash Costs, Borrowing Tesla's Playbook

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Meta is using tent structures to stand up AI data center capacity faster and cheaper, a tactic lifted from Tesla's rapid factory buildouts. The improvised approach underscores how acute the compute land-grab has become — hyperscalers are sacrificing conventional facility design to bring GPUs online sooner amid the capacity crunch.