At the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Meta infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan detailed the company's Prometheus data center complex in New Albany, Ohio, and previewed its next project, Hyperion, in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Prometheus spans more than 30 structures connected by three to four million kilometers of fiber-optic cable and uses a custom "Ethernet super spine" capable of tens of petabits per second to eliminate inter-building latency. Meta also replaced traditional steel-and-concrete construction with tent structures each at least two football fields long, and developed an AI-formulated concrete mix that uses 19% less carbon, cures 43% faster, and is cost-neutral; Meta is open-sourcing the concrete tool. Hyperion, described by Janardhan as "the biggest data center on the planet," is a five-gigawatt cluster covering about 4,000 acres at a single location.
A five-gigawatt single-site cluster represents a scale of power demand and land use that far exceeds prior industry benchmarks, setting a new reference point for grid planners, utility regulators, and land-use authorities. Meta's open-sourcing of its lower-carbon concrete formulation could influence construction practices across the broader data center industry, which relies heavily on concrete at massive scale.
A Meta executive presentation at OCP Global Summit drawing strong audience reaction signals meaningful new data center technology announcements from one of the largest hyperscalers. The OCP Summit is a major industry venue and Meta's US infrastructure buildout is directly relevant.