Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it's literally erecting tents for temporary data center capacity while its facilities are still under construction.

Meta is using weatherproof tent structures to house AI infrastructure, in a bid to build data centers as quickly as possible.

It's not just the spending that will be big. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg envisions a single data center, the footprint of which would occupy as much acreage as a good chunk of Manhattan.