{"id":9740,"date":"2025-07-14T18:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9740\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:48:05","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-is-building-a-5gw-ai-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9740\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post<\/a> on Threads.<\/p>\n

The announcement marks Meta\u2019s latest move to get ahead of OpenAI and Google in the AI race. After previously poaching top talent to run Meta Superintelligence Lab, including former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang<\/a> and<\/a> former Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross, Meta now seems to be turning its attention to the massive computational power needed to train frontier AI models.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg said Hyperion\u2019s footprint will be large enough to cover most of Manhattan. Hyperion seems to be located in northeast Louisiana, in a town called Richland Parish, according to semiconductor analysts at Semianalysis.<\/a> In 2024, Meta announced a $10 billion data center development in this town, originally slated to be a two GW super cluster. Zuckerberg noted in his post that Hyperion would scale to five gigawatts over \u201cseveral years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg also noted that Meta plans to bring a 1 GW super cluster, called Prometheus, online in 2026, making it one of the first tech companies to control an AI data center of this size. Prometheus seems to be a network of data centers located<\/a> around New Albany, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s AI data center build-out seems likely to make the company more competitive with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic in its ability to train and serve leading AI models. It\u2019s possible the effort could also help Meta attract additional talent, who may be drawn to work at a company with the computational needs to compete in the AI race.<\/p>\n

Together, Prometheus and Hyperion will soak up enough energy to power millions of homes, which could pull significant amounts of electricity and water from neighboring communities. One of Meta\u2019s data center projects in Newton County, Georgia, has already caused the water taps to run dry in some residents\u2019 homes<\/a>, The New York Times reported Monday.<\/p>\n

Other AI data center projects may cause similar problems for people living near them. AI hyperscaler CoreWeave is planning a data center expansion that is projected to double the electricity needs<\/a> of a city near Dallas, Texas, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, tech companies are determined to build out massive datacenter projects to power their AI ambitions. Other notable efforts include OpenAI\u2019s Stargate project with Oracle and Softbank<\/a>, as well as xAI\u2019s Colossus supercomputer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has largely championed the tech industry\u2019s AI data center buildout. President Donald Trump helped OpenAI announce its Stargate project, and has since spoken about efforts to expand America\u2019s AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n

In a column featured in The Economist on Monday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright called for the U.S. to \u201clead the next major energy-intensive frontier: artificial intelligence<\/a>.\u201d He noted that AI transforms electricity into the \u201cmost valuable output imaginable: intelligence,\u201d and that the federal government would accelerate the production of energy derived from coal, nuclear, geothermal, and natural gas.<\/p>\n

With the support of federal officials, the AI industry seems poised to soak up much of America\u2019s energy in the years to come. Experts estimate that data centers could account for 20% of America\u2019s energy consumption<\/a> by 2030, up from just 2.5% in 2022. Without rapidly increased energy production, that could cause even more problems for communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9659,28,1687,1282],"class_list":{"0":"post-9740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ai-data-center","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-climate","11":"tag-meta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","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=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}