Meta to spend hundreds of billions on AI data centres, says Zuckerberg
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The news: Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” to build several massive AI data centres to power its superintelligence ambitions.
Posting on his social media platform Threads, Zuckergerg said just one of the titan clusters covers “a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.”
The first multi-gigawatt centre, Prometheus, is expected online in 2026, and another, Hyperion, will scale up to 5 gigawatts, he said.
The context: The announcement comes after Zuckerberg has recently formed Superintelligence Labs at Meta to unify its AI efforts after setbacks with its Llama 4 model and staff exits.
The unit is led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, part of an aggressive hiring push by Zuckerberg.
In April, Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure to between USD64 billion and USD72 billion, Reuters noted.
Meanwhile, a non-jury trial begins Wednesday in Delaware, where shareholders are suing Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Meta leaders. They are seeking to recover more than USD8 billion in fines and costs over alleged violations of a 2012 FTC data privacy agreement tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Reuters, Bloomberg
