CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to invest up to USD 65B in 2025 to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
This significant investment aims to strengthen Meta’s AI capabilities and enhance its competitiveness against rivals like OpenAI and Google in the swiftly advancing AI market.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg referred to 2025 as “a defining year for AI,” highlighting that its AI initiatives would drive the company’s core products and business in the coming years.
“This is a massive effort,” Zuckerberg stated, emphasising that the expansion would foster groundbreaking innovation and be crucial in maintaining US leadership in technology.
Meta intends to substantially increase its AI hiring as part of its broader investment plan. The company will also construct a vast 2-gigawatt data centre, large enough to cover a significant portion of Manhattan.
This centre will support the computational demands of Meta’s AI projects, including running models like Llama 4, which Zuckerberg expects to become a leading AI model.
Meta aims to significantly boost computing power The company also plans to bring online around 1 gigawatt of computing power in 2025 and end the year with over 1.3 million graphics processing units (GPUs), essential for powering AI workloads.
Meta has been one of the largest purchasers of GPUs from Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips are vital for running advanced AI models.
Zuckerberg’s post also outlined Meta’s ambitious AI roadmap. By 2025, the company expects its AI systems to serve over a billion people globally and develop an AI engineer capable of contributing substantial code to its research and development.
“This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg wrote, stressing the importance of AI in shaping the company’s future. “We have the capital to keep investing in the years to come.”
This announcement follows closely after US President Donald Trump unveiled a joint venture, Stargate, between OpenAI, SoftBank (9984.T), and Oracle (ORCL.N), which plans to invest USD 500B in AI infrastructure across the US.
Meta’s USD 60B-65B investment reflects the broader trend of major tech companies investing heavily in AI, a sector that has gained momentum following the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Zuckerberg concluded his post with an enthusiastic message: “Let’s go build.”