Meta announces 600 billion US dollar AI investments
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to create capacities to be prepared for "most optimistic scenarios" and spend hundreds of billions of dollars for it.
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The Meta Group has announced massive investments in AI infrastructure: 600 billion US dollars are to be invested by 2028, primarily in the construction of new data centers. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to prepare for "most optimistic scenarios" by "aggressively maintaining" corresponding capacities.
Meta announced the new investments on Friday on its own website. The money is intended for the construction of new AI data centers, the promotion of AI technology, and the creation of new jobs. All projects are to be implemented in the USA. All of this serves the goal of creating the next generation of AI products with "personal superintelligence for everyone." However, Meta owes a precise definition of this "superintelligence." In an open letter from Mark Zuckerberg from July, there are only various advertising promises, such as that superintelligence helps people "achieve their goals, create what they wish for the world, experience every adventure," and similar things.
"Aggressively maintain capacities"
Friday's announcement makes official what Zuckerberg according to the news agency Reuters had already indicated to the US President in September. At a dinner at the White House, there was talk of at least 600 billion dollars that Meta intended to invest in AI in the USA.
When presenting the latest business figures, Zuckerberg also explained, according to Reuters, that it is "the right strategy to aggressively maintain capacities so that we are prepared for the most optimistic scenarios," and announced "significantly larger" capital expenditures for AI. However, Meta has not yet stated exactly where the money will come from. In the third quarter of 2025, the group achieved revenue of around 51 billion dollars, an increase of 26 percent compared to the previous year's quarter. There is much to suggest that Meta will also rely on external financiers for its large investment plans.
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In October, the group had already agreed with the investment company Blue Owl to build a data center in Louisiana costing 27 billion dollars – Meta's largest of its kind to date. In the same month, Meta also announced a 1.5 billion dollar investment in a data center in Texas.
Recently, Meta had hired a whole series of AI specialists – so many that some of them apparently got in each other's way – and announced 600 of them again.
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