Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the corporate plans to considerably up its capital expenditures this yr because it goals to maintain tempo with rivals within the cutthroat AI house.
In a Facebook submit Friday, Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on capex in 2025, totally on information facilities and rising the corporate’s AI improvement 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 convey round one gigawatt of compute on-line this yr, roughly the quantity of energy consumed by 750,000 common houses, and expects the corporate’s information facilities to pack over 1.3 million GPUs by year-end.
Meta’s investments come as AI rivals pour billions into their very own infrastructure tasks. Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI information facilities in 2025, whereas OpenAI is contributing to a three way partnership, Stargate, that would yield it a whole lot of billions of {dollars}’ value of information heart sources.
