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Re:Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B by geodel on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:20PM (#44980707)
Could be other way round too. Meta wants to use their own data centers capacity for their custom AI solutions. Generic compute and storage for online and batch workloads can be moved to Google cloud infra.
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Re:Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B by bmau5 on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:50AM (#44981098)
Yep definitely could be
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Re:Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B by yencabulator on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:34PM (#44986570)
Also, AI training can be centralized but user serving benefits from being close to the user. So Meta might be building huge new data centers for AI training and centralized analytics etc, while using plenty of DCs owned by others around the globe to run their apps.
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