The development of data center infrastructure in the West increases its technological gap with China

On February 2, 2024, the American company Meta announced plans to invest up to $37 billion in digital infrastructure. According to the company’s CFO, Meta expects the company’s growth to be driven by investments in, among other things, data centers.

Using new cooling and power management systems, the company is reconfiguring these centers for the era of AI scaling. Previously, Meta relied on CPUs and proprietary chips to handle traditional workloads and AI. As the use of AI grew rapidly, processors could not keep up, and Meta’s efforts to develop chips were initially unsuccessful.

Now, the company has restarted the project, and it is expected that its 7nm Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chips will be deployed in the new data centers along with thousands of GPUs.