Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated on Monday that the company is building several large data centers to support its development of artificial intelligence, with the goal of achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the first data center is expected to be operational next year. He mentioned that Meta is expected to become the first company in the world to have a “supercluster” with a capacity of over 1 gigawatt.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, announced on Monday that the company will invest hundreds of billions of dollars to build several large data centers to support the development of its artificial intelligence, aiming to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with the first data center expected to be operational next year.
Zuckerberg posted on his social platform Threads on Monday:
“We have named the first data center Prometheus, which is expected to launch in 2026. We are also building more giant clusters.”
He referred to large data center parks here. Another data center named Hyperion will be able to expand to 5 gigawatts in the coming years.
On Monday, Zuckerberg described the data centers under construction in his post as “multi-gigawatt ‘clusters'”, which will be among the largest data centers in the world. Meta is building its largest facility in Richland Parish, Louisiana, which Zuckerberg stated is nearly as large as Manhattan.
Currently, most data centers have a capacity of only hundreds of megawatts, while some artificial intelligence companies and major technology firms, including OpenAI and Oracle, are planning to build data centers that can handle several gigawatts of capacity. In the post, Zuckerberg cited views from SemiAnalysis, stating that Meta is expected to become the world’s first company to have a “super cluster” with more than 1 gigawatt capacity.
As a result of this news, Meta’s stock price briefly rose by 1.3%, later retreating to a 0.71% increase, closing at $722.57.
Zuckerberg reiterated in a Post on Monday that the company will invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in data center capacity construction to create super intelligence. In response to investor concerns about the return on expenses, Zuckerberg defended the massive investment by emphasizing the strong performance of the company’s core advertising Business.
“We have funds from the Business to support this plan.”
Currently, most of Meta’s revenue comes from ads on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, with the company’s sales continuing to achieve year-on-year growth. Data shows that Meta’s revenue was close to 165 billion dollars last year.
Analyst Gil Luria from D.A. Davidson stated that Meta is actively investing in AI, as this Technology has enhanced the advertising Business by helping the company sell more and higher-priced ads.
“But at this scale, such investment is more about long-term competition for leading AI models, which may take time to achieve.”
Media reports indicate that due to dissatisfaction with Meta’s past AI achievements, Zuckerberg has been heavily investing in infrastructure and talent. In April of this year, Meta stated that its spending could reach 72 billion dollars, focusing on artificial intelligence and data centers. In recent weeks, Zuckerberg has also personally assembled a team of experts aimed at achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The new Meta Superintelligence Labs team includes researchers recruited from OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, and other top artificial intelligence companies. Recently, Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI (which was valued at 14.3 billion dollars) and appointed the company’s co-founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer. Zuckerberg also successfully invited former GitHub head Nat Friedman, AI startup founder Daniel Gross, and Ruoming Pang from Apple to join, the latter joining with a compensation exceeding 0.2 billion dollars.
