Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) will pour hundreds of billions of dollars into building the world’s largest AI supercomputing infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Monday, underlining the company’s aggressive pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Zuckerberg said Meta’s new data centers—Prometheus (launching 2026) and Hyperion (scaling up to 5 gigawatts)—will be some of the largest AI-focused facilities on Earth, with additional “titan clusters” in development.
“Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” Zuckerberg posted on Threads.
Meta’s announcement comes as part of a broader AI race among Big Tech, with companies battling over top engineers and investing in computing power at an unprecedented scale.
Zuckerberg referenced industry outlet SemiAnalysis, which claimed Meta may become the first AI lab to deploy a gigawatt-plus supercluster, putting it ahead of rivals like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
This move also follows a wave of multi-million-dollar AI hiring packages, with Meta poaching engineers from competitors as it ramps up its Llama model family and open-source initiatives.
Zuckerberg justified the spending by pointing to Meta’s robust core advertising business, stating:
“We have the capital from our business to do this.”
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Meta shares rose 1% on the news.
The stock is up over 20% YTD, bolstered by strong ad revenue and improved efficiency ratios.
Still, investor concerns remain over whether AI expenditures will generate tangible returns, especially as AGI timelines remain speculative.
Meta’s AI infrastructure play is a high-risk, high-reward strategy to leap ahead in the superintelligence race. As Prometheus and Hyperion come online, the next few years will test whether Zuckerberg’s vision delivers not just innovation—but investor returns.
