Meta to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into several multi-GW datacenters

Meta expects to spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" on data centers for it AI efforts, as the company builds out a new superintelligence team.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has aggressively ramped up the company's AI effort, spending hundreds of millions on key hires and billions on acquisitions, as the company looks to leapfrog competition.

"For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry," Zuckerberg said on his Threads platform.

"We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this."

The company in January said that it would spend $60-65bn on AI data center capex this year, up from $35-40bn the year before.

"SemiAnalysis just reported that Meta is on track to be the first lab to bring a 1GW+ supercluster online," Zuckerberg continued, referencing this report.

"We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan."

The Ohio Prometheus development will use gas turbines and is based on a new data center design focused on speed to deployment, SemiAnalysis reports.

Meta is also developing a $10 billion data center in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana, known as Hyperion. First announced last year as a four million-square-foot campus, it is expected to take until 2030 to be fully built out.

By the end of 2027, it could have as much as 1.5GW of IT power.

For the new Superintelligence team, Zuckerberg has offered OpenAI, Google, and Apple workers as much as $200 million over four years to join.

He also acquired a 49 percent stake in data labeling company Scale AI and hired its CEO, Alexandr Wang, for the new unit. Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, and Daniel Gross, the CEO and co-founder of Safe Superintelligence, also joined the team.