At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2025, Meta shared its latest open hardware innovations and a new framework for sustainable AI data center design. Meta believes open source hardware will be key to building scalable and efficient AI infrastructure as demand grows. The company co-founded OCP in 2011 to promote open collaboration in data center development, and its mission is now more important than ever.
Meta joined peers in supporting the OCP Open Data Center Initiative, which sets shared standards for power, cooling, mechanical systems, and telemetry to improve interoperability across the industry. It introduced next-generation network fabrics for AI clusters, including switches using NVIDIA’s Spectrum Ethernet, and announced the Open Rack Wide (ORW) form factor, a new open standard for AI data racks. AMD’s new Helios AI rack is built on these ORW specifications.
Meta also presented “Design for Sustainability,” a set of principles to lower hardware emissions through modularity and reuse. Using Llama AI models, Meta is tracking emissions data to optimize sustainability across its data centers.
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