IBL News | New York
Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced it would spend $65 billion this year to expand its AI data center infrastructure, ramp up hiring, and bolster its position against OpenAI and Google to dominate the technology.
The company also plans to build an AI engineer that will start writing its code.
Meta is deploying one gigawatt of computing power online and building a $10 billion, four million-square-foot data center in Louisiana, the latest of its 27 data centers worldwide.
The company expects to end the year with more than 1.3 million graphic processing units, commonly known as GPUs.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg [in the picture above] said in a Facebook post.
Meta’s announcement comes just days after President Trump announced that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle would form a venture called Stargate and invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure across the U.S.
Also, last week, President Trump signed an executive order aiming “to sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
Earlier this month, Microsoft said it was planning to invest about $80 billion in 2025 to develop data centers, while Amazon.com has said its 2025 spending will go beyond $75 billion in 2024.
Elon Musk said he built a data center in just a few months in Memphis, Tenn., increasing its computing capacity to one million GPUs.
Meta has emerged as a significant player in the AI race with its AI assistant — with 600 million monthly active users — the Ray-Ban smart glasses, and its open-source approach based on Llama AI models.
