Meta plans $65 billion investment to build a datacenter with 1.3 million AI GPUs in 2025.

Meta plans to invest over $65 billion in artificial intelligence development in 2025, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in order to boost its AI capabilities and compete with rivals OpenAI and Google. The social networking giant will increase its hiring for artificial intelligence roles and undertake a massive infrastructure expansion to support these ambitions.

Central to Meta's AI strategy is the construction of a new 2-gigawatt data center so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan in New York City. The company is acquiring over 1.3 million AI GPUs, primarily NVIDIA's latest models, after spending tens of billions of dollars on these components. Meta plans to bring approximately 1 gigawatt of computing power online in 2025 and will end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs in operation.

In a statement outlining his vision, Zuckerberg declared: "This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts." He further noted that "Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan."

Addressing the scope of the investment, Zuckerberg stated: "We'll bring online ~1GW of compute in '25 and we'll end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. We're planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year while also growing our AI teams significantly, and we have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead." He characterized the undertaking as "a massive effort" that will ultimately "drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership."