Meta Platforms has officially unveiled plans to invest over $600 billion into U.S. infrastructure and jobs by 2028. These plans help further their focus to build more AI data centres and increase its compute capabilities.
By constructing the data centres, Meta stated it aims to advance AI technology, create jobs, support local economies, and reinforce the US’ technological leadership.
Since 2010, the Facebook-parent’s data centre projects have supported over 30,000 skilled trade jobs and 5,000 operational jobs. Meta also stated it is a large customer for US contractors and manufacturers, bringing $20 billion in business to subcontractors while supporting various skilled trades.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put AI at the front of the company’s agenda this year as it hired new employees and raised its capex guidance.
On last month’s Q3 earnings call CFO Susan Li said capital spending “will be notably larger” in 2026 than 2025, as it looks to build out more computing infrastructure for AI.
Superintelligence
Zuckerberg is a big proponent of developing superintelligence, a theoretical form of AI which would not just match but vastly exceed human intelligence across every domain of cognitive ability.
Zuckerberg stated on the Q3 call Meta is building up its compute capabilities because “it’s the right strategy to aggressively front-load building capacity so that way we’re prepared for the most optimistic cases. That way, if superintelligence arrives sooner, we will be ideally positioned for a generational paradigm shift and many large opportunities”.
Source: Mobile World Live
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