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AMD to deliver 6 GW of AIPs to Meta

How many is 6 GW, and where will Meta put them?

Jon Peddie

Meta and AMD’s 6 GW deal translates to roughly 4–5 million MI450 GPUs, depending on per-chip TDP estimates of 1.2–2.5 kW. Meta’s primary destination for that silicon is the Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana—a 4 million-square-foot, $10 billion facility targeting 2+ GW of compute capacity, but not fully operational until around 2030. The first gigawatt of MI450 shipments, beginning in late 2026, will land in existing Meta facilities like its Ohio Prometheus cluster. These are multi-year infrastructure programs, not plug-and-play deployments—gigawatts, billions of dollars, and years move together. The AMD-Meta 6 GW agreement positions AMD Instinct GPUs at the
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