Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too
Zuckerberg expects to invest as much as $65 billion to further Meta’s AI ambitions, which includes a data center ‘so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.’
Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center
Mark Zuckerberg announced a huge leap in Meta’s capital spending this year to between $60 billion to $65 billion, an increase driven by AI and a massive new data center.The 70% increase over 2024 capital expenditure projections comes days after OpenAI and partners unveiled a $500 billion spending plan backed by President Trump called Stargate earlier this week.
AI spurs an explosion in data center spending. Can it all pay off?
OpenAI debuted its Operator agent system. It’s just a research preview for now, a start toward the promised land of AI agents where we might see automated grocery restocking and expense reports (I’ll believe that when I see it). But the road will be long and winding.
Zuckerberg wants to spend billions more on AI. Meta investors like that idea.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is targeting $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year. One analyst thinks up to $33 billion of that could go toward GPUs.
Mark Zuckerberg announces $60 billion investment in Meta AI
Zuckerberg went on to say that Meta is building a data center of over two GW (gigawatts, a big amount of energy) "that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan."
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space. In a Facebook post Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on capex in 2025,
Meta to Invest Up to $65B in 2025 Into Data Center, AI
Meta Platforms plans to invest up to $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 to expand efforts related to data centers and artificial intelligence. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the social-media company will build a 2-gigawatt-plus data center and will end the year with more than 1.
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OpenAI’s $100 Billion Stargate Data Center in Texas Will Reportedly Only Employ 57 People
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