Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the corporate plans to noticeably up its capital expenditures this yr because it goals to stay tempo with opponents within the cutthroat AI area.
In a Fb submit Friday, Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on CapEx in 2025, totally on knowledge facilities and rising the corporate’s AI building groups. That projected vary is round double the $35 billion-$40 billion Meta spent on CapEx final yr.
Zuckerberg additionally wrote that Meta plans to deliver round one gigawatt of compute on-line this yr, more or less the quantity of energy fed on by way of 750,000 reasonable properties, and expects the corporate’s knowledge facilities to pack over 1.3 million GPUs by way of year-end.
Meta’s investments come as AI opponents pour billions into their very own infrastructure initiatives. Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI knowledge facilities in 2025, whilst OpenAI is contributing to a three way partnership, Stargate, that would yield it masses of billions of greenbacks’ price of information middle sources.
