Mark Zuckerberg continued to investing in 2024 that artificial intelligence would be the key to the future of his company. In 2025, he intends to say his money.
Zuckerberg anticipates its estimated $ 60 billion to $ 65 billion in 2025 on Friday that it will significantly increase compared to the Meta’s spending about 38 to 40 billion dollars in 2024.
Many of the amounts are used to the construction and expansion of data centers, a warehouse -sized building that provides computing power that promotes Meta AI products and algorithms throughout the apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Mr. Zuckerberg posted to his Facebook page, “This is a large -scale initiative, promoting our core products and businesses in the next few years, and unleashing historical innovation, and the United States technology. Will expand the leadership. “
He also stated that the company would have more than 1.3 million graphics processing units (GPU) by the end of the year. GPU is a type of computer chip that is excellent in the calculation capacity required for the AI system. In recent years, since the popularity of apps and products utilizing AI has been growing, the entire industry has a shortage of GPUs, and large and small technology companies are competing as much as possible from companies like NVIDIA.
In addition, despite the fact that the company’s personnel reduction and staff have been reduced many times over the past three years, Zuckerberg has “significantly” employment to expand the team in charge of the development of AI and related products. He said it was a plan to continue.
Meta’s stock price rose about 1 % on Friday.
The high -tech giant of Silicon Valley is competing to build the future of artificial intelligence and is involved in infrastructure development competition. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all billions of data centers and infrastructure projects, suggesting that spending will not decline for the time being.
On Tuesday, President Trump announced a joint venture called Openai, Softbank, and Oracle, with the aim of investing at least $ 100 billion in US data centers. An organization that supports the project may invest up to $ 5 trillion in Stargate in the next four years. Elon Musk, who runs a competing artificial intelligence emerging company, later questioned the numbers.
Since Trump won in November, Zuckerberg has been trying to restore a tense relationship for many years. Zuckerberg visited Trump’s resort, Marl A Lago, and donated to the inauguration ceremony, and alleviated the speech restrictions of the entire meta app that conservatives have been particular about for many years.
Mr. Trump promised to accelerate the production of US -made AI to compete with China over the world leadership in the technical field. He signed a presidential decree on Thursday, aimed at removing barriers in the United States.
RBC Capital Markets may be regarded as “the first time this week’s Stargate’s announcement to remind the investors in the AI field in the AI field,” the announcement of Meta on Friday. Analysts wrote in research notebooks. Meta plans to announce the details of the capital investment plan and other investors next week.
Meta has long been intended to invest a large amount of data centers. In 2023, a $ 4.3 billion cost was incurred in 2023, as the company decided to redesign many of the future data center projects to prepare for the AI project. The company has expanded the installation area of data centers from Danish, Hanzville, Alabama.
Zuckerberg said he would continue to invest a lot in infrastructure to support the future of computing using AI chatbots and other programs.
This includes LLAMA, an META open source AI technology that allows independent software developers to download and enhance their own AI apps.
Last year, Meta announced that it will build the latest data center in the Luigiana Richland parish. The company announced that the size of the building would be more than 4 million square feet, but Zuckerberg said, “It will cover a lot of Manhattan.” “
“Let’s go to build!” He wrote on his Facebook page and added emoji to bend muscles.
