{"id":123467,"date":"2025-11-07T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123467\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:15:14","slug":"meta-plans-600-billion-us-spend-as-ai-data-centers-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123467\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta plans $600 billion US spend as AI data centers expand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -Meta Platforms (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/META\" data-ylk=\"slk:META;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">META<\/a>) on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. \u200binfrastructure and jobs over the next three years, \u200cincluding <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> data centers, as the social media giant races to \u200cbuild infrastructure to power its AI ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Meta has doubled down on AI, with a target of achieving superintelligence, a theoretical milestone where machines outthink humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">It has pledged hundreds of billions of \u2060dollars to build several \u200clarge AI data centers and plans bigger outlays to meet compute needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">CEO Mark Zuckerberg told U.S.\u200d President Donald Trump that Meta will invest &#8220;at least $600 billion&#8221; in the U.S. over the next several years \u200bat a White House dinner in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Zuckerberg said Meta is \u200cbuilding compute because &#8220;it&#8217;s the right strategy to aggressively front-load capacity so we&#8217;re prepared for the most optimistic cases,&#8221; on the company&#8217;s recent earnings call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Meta has forecast &#8220;notably larger&#8221; capital expenses next year thanks \u2060to investments in artificial intelligence, \u200bincluding aggressively building data centers to \u200bpower its AI push.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Last month, the social media giant sealed a $27 billion financing deal with Blue \u200dOwl Capital to \u2060fund its Louisiana data center, its biggest project globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Meta said in October it would invest $1.5 billion in \u2060a data center in Texas, breaking ground on its 29th such \u200cfacility globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City;\u200c Editing by Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Meta Platforms (META) on Friday said it will invest $600 billion in U.S. \u200binfrastructure and jobs over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,8558,1702,33438,111,139,69,14887,145],"class_list":["post-123467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-data-centers","tag-infrastructure","tag-meta-platforms","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}