Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

Ars Technica reports that Meta, the social‑media giant behind Facebook, is testing robots in its data centers to plug cables, reset servers and swap networking connections. Workers familiar with the trials say a single robotic arm could take on up to eighty percent of the physical workload currently done by technicians, potentially lowering labor costs as the company expands its AI infrastructure. The experiments remain in the testing phase, and Meta has not indicated when the bots might be rolled out at scale.

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