Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure

The Register
By Tobias MannOct 20, 2026, 4:39 pm123 pts
More than 11 percent of the GPUs at Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, are either dead or sitting idle waiting to step in when the next drops out, Zuckercorp revealed this week. The massive pool of redundant GPUs is just one of several measures the hyperscaler has taken to keep its AI…

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