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

Redundant Nvidia processors kept on standby to protect large-scale model training

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

Meta has kept tens of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors on standby within its Prometheus supercluster to handle routine hardware breakdowns. The reserve inventory forms part of the company's strategy to maintain continuous uptime across an estate targeting one million active GPUs during training workloads.

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This summary was written by the GPU Data Hub desk from reporting published by The Register on 20 Oct 2026, 20:39. Read the full article at the original publisher.

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