Meta's vision: Data centers as large as Manhattan for artificial intelligence

AI Project Meta Aims to Reach the Top of AI With Massive Data Centers

2025-07-17 Source: dpa 2 min Reading Time

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Data centers that could fill the core of Manhattan! This is the vision with which the Facebook company Meta aims to soon take the lead in artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Mark Zuckerberg has drawn attention with the vision of surging to the top of AI players with gigantic data centers in the USA. Here’s more on everything ...(Image: AP) — Mark Zuckerberg has drawn attention with the vision of surging to the top of AI players with gigantic data centers in the USA. Here’s more on everything ...
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"To catapult Meta to the top of AI companies, we will invest hundreds of billions of dollars," wrote Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the online platform Threads. For this year alone, Meta has already allocated investments of over 70 billion dollars, as further reported. An initial new facility named Prometheus (hopefully, this won't backfire in the long run) is scheduled to go online in 2026, Zuckerberg announced. Another titan-like project called Hyperion is expected, in its final expansion stage, to require up to five gigawatts of energy in a few years. According to expert estimates, this amount of energy could also power four million average U.S. households for a year. According to media reports, Zuckerberg is also dissatisfied with the pace at which Meta is progressing in developing powerful AI. It is further reported that Meta is considering abandoning its current AI model Behemoth (Monster). However, this would be unusual, as Meta has so far insisted that such open-source AI programs would ultimately prevail against the competition.

Meta is Increasingly Attracting AI Experts to the Company

In recent weeks, the company has also spent a significant amount of money to attract top industry experts. Among them is a senior AI developer from Apple, whom Meta reportedly enticed with a $200 million compensation package, according to financial service Bloomberg. At the same time, Zuckerberg appointed 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, as AI chief, with Meta acquiring a 49 percent stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion. Meta clearly aims to compete at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, including with "ChatGPT" developer "OpenAI." However, Elon Musk's AI company "xAI" also intends to invest billions of dollars in data centers. At Musk's company, the AI chatbot Grok is being developed, although it recently caused an uproar due to anti-Semitic remarks. Following heavy criticism, "xAI" attributed this faux pas to a botched update and issued an apology.

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