Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to spend up to $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant portion of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.
The announcement reads like a response to the Big AI Data Center News touted by competitors earlier this week. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump joined Sam Altman of Openai, Son Masayoshi of Softbank, and Larry Ellison of Oracle as they announced Project Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture that will create adaptable data centers in Texas and other parts of the country. City documents seen by Bloomberg Suggest that the Texas Data Center will be as big as New York’s Central Park.
Zuckerberg said he expects to finish the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs, while “dramatically” growing the company’s AI team. “This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg wrote. “In 2025, I expect Meta Ai to be the main assistant that will serve more than a billion people, Llama 4 will become the main cutting-edge model, and we will build an AI engineer that will start contributing more in addition to code to our code to our code R&D (research and development) efforts. »
