It's a very logical extension of the project that became Open Compute, which started at Facebook back in 2009 and was announced two years later [1]. Facebook h

It's a very logical extension of the project that became Open Compute, which started at Facebook back in 2009 and was announced two years later [1]. Facebook has been running its own datacenters, first in colos and now fully purpose-built, for nearly a decade and a half at this point. That hardware design done by a company isn't familiar to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And that's not even mentioning the now nearly four years old Oculus acquisition or the resources Facebook has been pouring into AI/ML research and applications. [1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/building-efficient-data-centers-with-the-open-compute-project/10150144039563920/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/building...