Zuckerberg Says Meta to Spend Up to $65B on AI Data Centers

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to invest between $60 billion and $65 billion in capital expenditures to expand the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. He referred to 2025 as “the defining year of AI” in the company’s ongoing efforts to bolster its AI capabilities.

In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg revealed that Meta plans to build a data center with more than 2 GW of capacity, which he described as large enough to “cover a significant part of Manhattan.” The data center is expected to bring online around 1 GW of computing power this year, with Meta aiming to have more than 1.3 million GPUs at its disposal by the end of 2025.

“Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we’ll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts,” predicted Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg emphasized that Meta has the funds to continue investing in AI infrastructure in the coming years. He expects these investments to drive the company’s core products and business, positioning AI as a key focus for Meta’s future growth.