Meta plans to spend between US$60 billion and US$65 billion this year to develop artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said on Friday (24).
As part of the investment, Meta will build a 2+ gigawatt data center, which would be large enough to cover a significant portion of Manhattan. The company — one of the biggest customers for Nvidia’s coveted artificial intelligence chips — plans to end the year with more than 1.3 million graphics processors.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “This is a huge effort and over the next few years it will drive our core products and business forward.”
Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant — available across its services including Facebook and Instagram — to serve more than 1 billion people by 2025, while its open-source Llama 4 will become the “next-generation model.”
Major technology companies have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop AI-related infrastructure after the meteoric success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT highlighted the technology’s potential.
US President Donald Trump announced last Tuesday (21) that OpenAI, SoftBank Group and Oracle will form a venture called Stargate and invest US$500 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States.
Earlier this month, Microsoft said it planned to invest about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to develop data centers, while Amazon.com said its investments in 2025 would be larger than the estimated $75 billion in 2024. .
The target’s planned contribution of up to US$65 billion would represent a significant jump compared to the amount of between US$38 billion and US$40 billion estimated last year.
As part of the AI efforts, the company said it will build an AI engineering that would begin contributing increasingly larger amounts of code to its research and design efforts. It will also continue to grow teams working on AI services.
