Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres
The company, which has made most of its money from online advertising, generated more than $160bn in revenue in 2024.
Meta has invested heavily in efforts to develop what it called "superintelligence" - technology that it said could out-think the smartest humans.
He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles).
The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said.
Meta's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US.
In a post on his social media platform, Threads, Zuckerberg said Meta was building several multi-gigawatt clusters, and that one cluster, called Hyperion, could scale up to five gigawatts over several years.
"We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan," he added.
Prometheus will be built in New Albany, Ohio, while Hyperion will be built in Louisiana and is expected to be fully online by 2030, Zuckerberg said.
He said Meta would "invest hundreds of billions of dollars... to build superintelligence" and that the centres had been given "names befitting their scale and impact".
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