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Meta to Invest Up to $65 Billion in 2025 CapEx for AI Expansion

Jan 24, 2025, 02:36 PM

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2025, significantly higher than analyst estimates of $51.3 billion and representing a 50% to 70% increase from the company's previous guidance of $38 billion to $40 billion for 2024. The investment aims at expanding Meta's artificial intelligence initiatives, including significantly growing its AI teams. The company is constructing a massive 2 gigawatt-plus data center, so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan, and plans to bring online approximately 1 gigawatt of compute capacity in 2025. By the end of that year, Meta expects to have more than 1.3 million GPUs in operation. Zuckerberg described 2025 as a "defining year for AI," anticipating that Meta AI will serve over 1 billion people, that Llama 4 will become the leading state-of-the-art model, and that an AI engineer will start contributing code to the company's research and development efforts. He also expressed confidence that Meta has the capital to continue investing in the years ahead. The increased spending underscores Meta's commitment to AI development and infrastructure expansion.