Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to advance the company's AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says is “so large that it will 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 OpenAI's Sam Altman, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Larry Ellison As they announced Project StargateA $500 billion joint venture that will build AI data centers in Texas and other parts of the country. City documents viewed by bloomberg Suggest that the Texas data center would be as big as New York's Central Park.
Zuckerberg said he expects to end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs, while “significantly” growing the company's AI team. “This will be a defining year for AI,” Zuckerberg wrote. “In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the dominant assistant serving over 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the dominant state of the art model, and we will create an AI engineer who will contribute increasing amounts of code to us.” Will start giving. R&D [research and development] Attempt.”