Meta has signed an agreement with Nvidia that will see it deploy the chipmaker’s CPUs alongside “millions” of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs and the Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but in a statement, Nvidia said the agreement was multi-year and multi-generational, and would represent the first “large-scale” Nvidia Grace-only deployment.

Meta is also targeting an additional “large-scale deployment” of Nvidia’s forthcoming Vera CPUs in 2027. Nvidia announced it would be making Vera available as a standalone offering in January of this year, with neocloud CoreWeave to be the first company to get its hands on the chips.

According to the announcement, Meta will use the hardware to support the build-out of hyperscale data centers optimized for AI training and inferencing, in support of the company’s long-term AI infrastructure roadmap.

During the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call earlier this year, Meta said it was expecting 2026 full-year capex of between $115-135 billion, up from the full year 2025 capex of $72.22bn. At the time, Meta CFO Susan Li said: "The majority of expense growth will be driven by infrastructure costs, which include third-party cloud spend, higher depreciation, and higher infrastructure operating expenses."

Last year, Meta said it would spend $600bn on US data centers by 2028, and recently established a new division dubbed Meta Compute to manage its AI data center ambitions, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying that they planned to build tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade, and "hundreds of gigawatts or more over time."

“No one deploys AI at Meta’s scale — integrating frontier research with industrial-scale infrastructure to power the world’s largest personalization and recommendation systems for billions of users,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Through deep codesign across CPUs, GPUs, networking, and software, we are bringing the full Nvidia platform to Meta’s researchers and engineers as they build the foundation for the next AI frontier.”

Zuckerberg added: “We’re excited to expand our partnership with Nvidia to build leading-edge clusters using their Vera Rubin platform to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world.”