Big tech company, Meta, has announced plans to invest up to $65bn to strengthen its Arificial Intelligence infrastructure and accelerate innovation.
This massive investment is part of the company’s strategy to lead AI advancements, enhance its core offerings, and expand infrastructure to support groundbreaking developments in the field.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Meta’s Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg, outlined the company’s next steps toward achieving these ambitious goals.
“We’re planning to invest $60-65 billion in capital expenditures this year while also significantly growing our AI teams,” the world’s second-richest man wrote.
He added, “We have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead. This is a massive effort, and over the coming years, it will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership.”
To support these efforts, Meta is building a massive data center with more than 2 gigawatts of power capacity. The centre will be so large that it could cover a significant portion of Manhattan (A county in the US), underscoring the scale of the infrastructure required.
Meta also plans to create an AI system capable of autonomously contributing to its research and development by writing code. This AI will assist in developing other AI systems and software.
“This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect 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,” Zuckerberg said.
He added, “To power this, Meta is building a 2GW+ data center, which is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We’ll bring approximately 1GW of compute online in 2025, and we’ll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs.”
The surge in AI investments is driven by the success of platforms like ChatGPT, which has inspired businesses across multiple industries to adopt AI technologies.
Microsoft has announced plans to invest $80 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure for fiscal 2025. This funding will focus on strengthening data centers essential for training AI models and deploying applications, with more than half of the investment directed toward the U.S.
Similarly, Google is concentrating on AI innovations, with its Cloud division experiencing rapid growth due to the widespread adoption of AI.
