SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 17, 2026 — Leads & Copy — NVIDIA and Meta have announced a multiyear, multigenerational strategic partnership focused on on-premises, cloud, and AI infrastructure. Meta will construct hyperscale data centers optimized for both AI training and inference, supporting the company’s long-term AI infrastructure roadmap.
The collaboration will facilitate the deployment of NVIDIA CPUs and millions of NVIDIA Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. It also includes integrating NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet switches into Meta’s Facebook Open Switching System platform.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the partnership brings the full NVIDIA platform to Meta’s researchers and engineers as they build the foundation for the next AI frontier through deep codesign across CPUs, GPUs, networking, and software. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to build leading-edge clusters using their Vera Rubin platform to deliver personal superintelligence.
Meta and NVIDIA will continue their partnership by deploying Arm-based NVIDIA Grace™ CPUs for Meta’s data center production applications. The aim is to improve performance per watt in Meta’s data centers as part of Meta’s long-term infrastructure strategy. According to the release, the collaboration marks the first large-scale NVIDIA Grace-only deployment, supported by codesign and software optimization investments in CPU ecosystem libraries to improve performance per watt with every generation.
The companies are also collaborating on deploying NVIDIA Vera CPUs, with the potential for large-scale deployment in 2027, further extending Meta’s energy-efficient AI compute footprint and advancing the broader Arm software ecosystem.
Meta will deploy industry-leading NVIDIA GB300-based systems and create a unified architecture that spans on-premises data centers and NVIDIA Cloud Partner deployments to simplify operations while maximizing performance and scalability. Meta has adopted the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform across its infrastructure footprint. This platform provides AI-scale networking, delivering predictable, low-latency performance while maximizing utilization and improving operational and power efficiency.
Meta has adopted NVIDIA Confidential Computing for WhatsApp private processing. This adoption enables AI-powered capabilities across the messaging platform while ensuring user data confidentiality and integrity. NVIDIA and Meta are collaborating to expand NVIDIA Confidential Compute capabilities beyond WhatsApp to emerging use cases across Meta’s portfolio, supporting privacy-enhanced AI at scale.
Engineering teams across NVIDIA and Meta are engaged in deep codesign to optimize and accelerate AI models across Meta’s core workloads. These efforts combine NVIDIA’s full-stack platform with Meta’s large-scale production workloads to drive higher performance and efficiency for new AI capabilities used by billions around the world.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) describes itself as the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.
Source: NVIDIA
