Meta is building several huge data centers for superintelligence: one of them the size of Manhattan
Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several huge AI data centers for superintelligence.
Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several huge AI data centers for superintelligence.
The tech giant plans to launch its first multi-gigawatt data center, called Prometheus, in Ohio, in 2026, Reuters reports .
The other, called Hyperion, will be the largest, and will be able to scale to 5 gigawatts in the coming years. It is located in Louisiana. According to Zuckerberg, it is comparable in size to Manhattan.
In his post on Threads, Zuckerberg cited analytics firm SemiAnalysis, which claims that Meta is on track to become the first “supercluster” to hold more than a gigawatt of power.
The company is set to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in data center capacity to build superintelligence. “We have the capital from our business to do this,” he wrote.
Meta, which derives the majority of its revenue from advertising on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, continues to show year-over-year sales growth.
To create a superintelligence, Meta's CEO has personally recruited a team of experts over the past few months.
The new Meta Superintelligence Labs team includes researchers poached from OpenAI , Google’s DeepMind, and other leading AI companies. Meta recently hired Scale AI co-founder Alexander Wang as its chief AI officer and spent $14.3 billion on a 49% stake in his company. Zuckerberg has also successfully recruited former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman , AI startup founder Daniel Gross, and Apple ’s Ruming Pang, who was lured to Meta with a compensation package worth more than $200 million.
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