Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company spend $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures largely focused on artificial intelligence.
In a post on Facebook, Zuckerberg outlined the company's 2025 goals. Zuckerberg also highlighted how Meta will build a 2GW+ data center that "is so large it would cover "a significant part of Manhattan."
Zuckerberg's disclosed AI spending spree lands a few weeks after Microsoft said it would spend $80 billion on capital expenditures. Meta's goals for 2025 go like this:
- Meta AI will be the leading AI assistant serving more than 1 billion people.
- Llama 4 will be the leading model.
- The company will build an AI engineer "that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts."
- Meta will bring online 1GW of compute in 2025 and end the year with 1.3 million GPUs.
- The company will expand its AI teams significantly.
Meta’s disclosure on capital spending comes as technology giants are tripping over themselves to highlight how much is being spent on AI infrastructure. This week, President Trump announced Stargate, an effort to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was the lead on Stargate along with Softbank and Oracle, but Elon Musk questioned the funding behind it.
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