META’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to build a large data center in Louisiana to strengthen the latest AI model “LLAMA 4”, which is scheduled to be released this year on Friday. It was announced.
Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that the company would invest more than $ 60 billion in AI, including data centers, and said that it would be “larger to cover a significant part of Manhattan.”
“This year will be a decisive year for AI. In 2025, META AI became a major assistant to provide more than 1 billion services, LLAMA 4 became the main cutting -edge model, and we are AI. Zuckerberg is expected to build an engineer and to provide more code to R & D.
Susan Lee said, Susan Lee, the highest finance manager of Meta, that the project would significantly increase meta’s capital spending, which would lead to about $ 38 billion to $ 40 billion in 2024. Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that despite these large -scale expenditures, the company has a capital that will continue to invest in the next few years.
This announcement was made in parallel with a wide range of AI investments, and President Donald Trump launched a project Stargate, an AI infrastructure joint venture with Openai, Oracle, and Softbank early this week. The company aims to establish a new company, including investment. It will reach $ 500 billion in the next four years.
This project was noticeable at the top of other high -tech companies, including Space X and Tesla’s CEO Eulon Musk, but the mask reply to the post of X, who announced this business, that there was no funding. Later, I noticed that I was feuding with Openai’s CEO Sam Altman. “
The popularity of AI models by companies such as Openai, Meta, and Anthropic is growing, and AI technology has been a hot topic for many technology companies. NVIDIA is a company that manufactures graphics processing units (special computer chips used for training AI model training), one of the highest market capitalization in 2024, and has about 3 current valuation. It is $ 600 billion.
President Trump also signed a presidential decree on Thursday to promote the development of AI technology in the United States, removed policies that have become a “barrier to US AI innovation”, and “Ideorogy prejudice. The goal of developing an AI system without operation is specified. Social agenda. “
In the Friday announcement, Zuckerberg hopes that “Meta AI will be a major assistant to provide more than 1 billion services” and “Rama 4 will be the main cutting -edge model.” Was stated.
According to the addition of data centers, the company plans to reach the end of the year with over 1.3 million GPUs. In January of last year, Zuckerberg said that META would buy 350,000 H100 graphics cards from NVIDIA, which would be billions of dollars.
Zuckerberg mentioned the data center project on the Instagram reel, which announced the release of Meta’s LLAMA 3.3 model last month, stating that the center would be used to build a future LLAMA version. According to the Census data, the project will be built in a Richland parish in a rural area with a population of about 19,000 in the northeastern part of Luziana.
