{"id":895268,"date":"2026-10-26T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895268\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:40:09","slug":"meta-launches-plan-for-95-billion-stock-offering-to-fund-ai-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895268\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta launches plan for $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a> said<\/a> Monday it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in AI infrastructure and superintelligence.<\/p>\n

The stock was up 1.6% in premarket trading after the announcement. Nvidia<\/a>, AMD<\/a> and Broadcom<\/a> were interested in purchasing up to $5 billion in shares, Meta said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The tech giant will initially raise $35 billion in underwritten public equity offerings, before raising an additional $60 billion with an at-the-market program.<\/p>\n

The news comes as hyperscalers pour record sums into the AI infrastructure buildout. Goldman Sachs estimates<\/a> that AI-related capital spending could total about $7.6 trillion from 2026 through 2031, across compute, data centers and power.<\/p>\n

Meta’s planned investments will support “emerging AI opportunities” including its family of apps, its AI agent Muse and its data center business, the company said Monday.<\/p>\n

It plans to balance funding for these investments through a mix of operating cash flow, investment-grade debt, partnerships and equity capital.<\/p>\n

Meta racing to secure AI infrastructure<\/p>\n

Meta is among the major hyperscalers that are increasingly tapping debt<\/a> to fund the expensive infrastructure required for the AI boom.<\/p>\n

Last week, Meta posted third-quarter results<\/a> showing revenue jumped 26% year-on-year: $64.60 billion versus the $63.37 billion analysts expected.\u00a0However, investors focused more on the tech company’s negative free cash flow and its higher full-year capital expenditure forecast.<\/p>\n

It now expects its full-year capex to range from $135 billion to $145 billion, raising the bottom of the range from $130 billion. That sent shares lower on the day.<\/p>\n

Meta is building four “superclusters” with more than one gigawatt of capacity each and is on track to nearly double total infrastructure capacity in 2026 on a year-over-year basis, the company said.<\/p>\n

The decision to raise more money “reflects the eye-watering levels of investment required to keep up in the AI arms race,” Ben Wood, senior partner at CCS Insight, told CNBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Meta offering more stock comes at a time when numerous companies, such as Google, SpaceX and soon, Anthropic, are going to the markets to raise funds.”<\/p>\n

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said it would look to raise $85 billion<\/a> in June. SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt financing<\/a> to purchase graphics processing units. Anthropic is preparing <\/a>for an IPO.<\/p>\n

TikTok U.S. is looking to secure multiple gigawatts of computing capacity<\/a> over the coming years, CNBC reported on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta said Monday it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2473,182,38080,181,507,5681,37246,122,8084,214220,214219,2195,3487,28315,74,147571],"class_list":["post-895268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advanced-micro-devices-inc","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-broadcom-inc","tag-business-news","tag-earnings","tag-invesco-qqq-trust","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-technology","tag-technology-select-sector-spdr-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}