Meta has unveiled an ambitious roadmap for AI in 2025, aiming to position itself at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. With plans to serve over 1 billion people through its Meta AI assistant, the company is doubling down on its mission to make AI ubiquitous and transformative.
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Meta's Investment in AI Infrastructure
Meta has unveiled plans to bring approximately 1 GW of compute capacity online in 2025. In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company plans to invest USD 60-65 billion in capital expenditure this year, primarily on data centres, and grow its AI teams "significantly."
In October 2024, Meta said it raised its annual spending forecast to USD 38-40 billion, up from the previous range of USD 37-40 billion projected in July 2024. At that time, the company highlighted a "significant acceleration" in infrastructure expenses for the following year, driven by expanded investments in servers, data centres, and network infrastructure.
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Expanding Data Center Footprint
The CEO also reiterated Meta's commitment to its USD 10 billion AI data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, which was announced in December 2024 in partnership with Louisiana Economic Development (LED).
"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 said.
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"To power this, Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. We'll bring online around 1GW of compute in 2025 and we'll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We're planning to invest USD 60-65 billion in capex this year while also growing our AI teams significantly, and we have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead. This is a massive effort, and over the coming years it will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership. Let's go build!" Zuckerberg added.
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stargate's Investments
Meanwhile, Microsoft recently announced plans to invest USD 80 billion in AI data centers, while OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle-backed Stargate disclosed a USD 500 billion investment to build AI infrastructure in the US, aiming to create jobs and transform lives.
