Meta Is Building Massive Gigawatt Data Centers
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Meta says its next-generation datacenter clusters will be so big, they will take up a similar amount of space as Manhattan.
Meta ihas announced to launch Prometheus, its first AI supercluster, by 2026 in a high-stake push into generative AI. Fueled by billions of dollars of investment, tent-based data centers and aggressive hiring of top researchers,
Meta accelerates its AI ambitions with Prometheus supercluster, tent-based data centers, and billion-dollar investments to outpace tech rivals.
In its latest blog post, Meta has revealed that accounts repeatedly reposting others’ content will now face penalties including restricted monetization.
Meta said it planned to spend $60–65 billion in AI-related capital expenditures this year — up from $35–40 billion in 2024.
And this, according to Zuck, is just the beginning. Meta’s Prometheus data center will be its first major AI data project, aimed at powering Meta’s new “superintelligence” push. The project will incorporate the capacity of some 600k NVIDIA H100 ...