Meta Platforms plans to spend as much as $65 billion this year to expand its AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, aiming to bolster the company’s position against rivals OpenAI and Google in the race to dominate the technology., Reuters reported.
As part of the investment, Meta will ramp up hiring for artificial intelligence roles and build a more than 2-gigawatt data center that would be large enough to cover a significant part of Manhattan.
The company — among the top buyers of Nvidia’s sought-after AI chips — aims to end the year with over 1.3 million graphics professors and plans to bring about 1 GW of computing power online in 2025.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “This is a massive effort, and over the coming years it will drive our four products and business.”
Meta’s announcement comes just days after U.S. President Trump announced that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will form a venture called Stargate and invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure across the U.S.
TechCrunch reported: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up it’s capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion – $80 billion on CapEx in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing the company’s AI development teams. That projected range is around double the $35 billion – $40 billion Meta spent on CapEx last year.
Zuckerberg also wrote that Meta plans to bring around one gigawatt of compute online this year, roughly the amount of power consumed by 750,000 average homes, and expects the company’s data centers to pack over 1.3 million GPUs by year-end.
NBC News reported: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company plans to build a massive data center in Louisiana to power its newest AI model, Llama 4, which is set to launch this year.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said the company would invest more than $60 billion into AI including the data center, which he noted would be “so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.”
“This will be the defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we’ll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts,” Zuckerberg wrote.
In my opinion, I have concerns about how much water Meta is going to take away from people who aren’t billionaires.