Meta plans $ 65 billion Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure

Meta Planning to invest in $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion in capital expenditures and growing artificial intelligence (AI) teams of this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg Say on a Friday (Jan. 24) post on facebook.

To say that this is a “verification year” for AI, Zuckerberg said the meta established a data center enough to cover “a significant part of Manhattan,” bring online 1 gigawatt calculation and have more than 1.3 million GPUs at the end. by 2025.

Zuckerberg said this infrastructure will strengthen AI’s efforts to the company that includes Meta AI, which he expects to serve more than 1 billion people this year; Llama 4, which he said to be “the main state of the art model;” and a new AI engineer built now contributing to the code of R & D efforts in Meta.

“It is a great effort, and in the coming years it will push our core products and businesses, open historical innovation, and expand the leadership of America,” Zuckerberg in the post .

This capital expenditure would be 50% higher than the estimated amount invested in Meta in 2024 and more than twice the amount invested in it in 2023, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Wall Street is estimated that the company will take a small amount than Zuckerberg announced – $ 51.3 billion – in capital expenditures this year, according to the report.

Zuckerberg’s notice followed the news of many other AI infrastructure investments.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday (Jan. 21) that a up to $ 500 billion project called Stargate build AI-focused Data centers In the US equity with Stargate is Softbankwhich is responsible for business funding, Openai,, Oracle and Mgxan Ai-Centered Sovereign Wealth Fund in Dubai.

It’s Jan. 7, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it planned to invest in at least $ 11 billion in Georgia to expand infrastructure to support Cloud computing and AI technologies. The company says this step about continued investment in infrastructure across the country.

Microsoft said January 3 that it plans to invest $ 80 billion build Data centers In fiscal 2025 to use the development and use of AI. To make notice, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said the company has done this among a “golden opportunity for American Ai.”