US EditionMeta’s Zuckerberg Pledges Hundreds of Billions for AI Data Centres in Superintelligence Push
EAST OF ATLANTA, TEXAS, ARIZONA, LOUISIANA, COLORADO, JUL 14 – Meta plans multiple gigawatt-scale data centers including one with capacity over 1,000 megawatts to advance artificial general intelligence and compete with rivals such as OpenAI.
- On July 14, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company intends to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars toward constructing multiple large AI data centers aimed at developing superintelligence.
- This aggressive investment responds to competition in AI and follows reports that Meta aims to rapidly deploy multi-gigawatt data centers inspired by xAI’s fast time-to-market.
- Meta is building multiple multi-gigawatt clusters, including the first called Prometheus, expected online in 2026, and Hyperion, scalable up to 5 gigawatts.
- SemiAnalysis confirmed Meta is on track to be the first lab with a 1GW+ supercluster, with one data center covering a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint and hundreds of billions invested.
- The investment targets long-term leadership in AI models, supported by Meta’s strong advertising revenue, but it raises questions about financial returns and environmental impact.
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Meta launches huge data centre projects and an aggressive talent recruitment strategy. With an ultimate goal for Mark Zuckerberg: build a "superintelligence" capable of surpassing human capabilities.
Meta’s Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centres in superintelligence push
Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centres for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.
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