$60 billion in one year: Mark Zuckerberg touts Meta's AI investments
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company plans to build a massive data center in Louisiana to power its newest AI model, Llama 4, which is set to launch this year.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company plans to build a massive data center in Louisiana to power its newest AI model, Llama 4, which is set to launch this year.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said the company would invest more than $60 billion into AI including the data center, which he noted would be “so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.”
“This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we’ll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts,” Zuckerberg wrote.
The project would mark a significant jump in Meta’s capital expenditures, which were around $38 billion to $40 billion in 2024, Susan Li, Meta’s chief financial officer, had previously said. In the Facebook post, Zuckerberg said despite these major expenditures, the company has “the capital to continue investing in the years ahead.”
The announcement comes alongside a broad surge in AI investment, with President Donald Trump announcing earlier this week the launch of Project Stargate — an AI infrastructure joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank — which aims to form a new company that could include investments of up to $500 billion over the next four years.
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