Mark Zuckerberg spent all 2024, telling investors that artificial intelligence will be the key to the future of his META company. In 2025, he plans to put his money where his mouth is.
On Friday, Mr. Tsuckerberg said that the company expected its capital costs in 2025 to reach about 60 to 65 billion dollars, which would increase significantly compared to about 38 to 40 billion dollars spent in 2024.
Most of this amount will develop and expand data processing centers, buildings the size of a warehouse that provide computing power that feeds Meta Meta products and algorithms in its applications, which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“This is a huge effort, and in the coming years it will stimulate our main products and business, unlock historical innovations and expand the leadership of American technological technology,” – M -N Tsuckerberg He said in a post On his Facebook page.
He noted that by the end of the year the company also expects to have more than 1.3 million graphic units or graphic processors. GPU is a type of computer chip that exceeds the type of computing power necessary for AI systems. Since in recent years, applications and products based on AI have become more popular, there is a lack of graphic processors throughout the industry, and technological companies with large and small are fighting for as much as companies such as NVIDIA.
And, despite many dismissal and reduction in labor force of the company over the past three years, Mr. Tsuckerberg said that he plans to continue to hire “significantly” for the development of teams responsible for working on AI and tied products.
The price of META shares increased by about 1 percent in early trade on Friday.
The technical giants of the Silicon Valley are locked in the infrastructure armament race, since they compete to build the future of artificial intelligence. Google, Microsoft and Amazon allocated billions of dollars to data processing centers and infrastructure projects, and did not give any slowdown in the expenses of the foreseeable future.
On Tuesday, President Trump announced a joint venture between Openai, SoftBank and Oracle Call Call Star doctorWhich seeks to invest at least $ 100 billion in the date of centers in the United States. The group, standing behind the project, said that over the next four years it can invest up to half a million dollars in Stargate. Elon Musk, which leads the startup of competing artificial intelligence, later Throw doubt On this figure.
Since Mr. Trump was elected in November, Mr. Tsuckerberg tried to restore his long-term relationship. Mr. Zuckerberg traveled several times to the resort of Mr. Trump, sacrificed and attended its inauguration and weakened the restrictions on speech in META applications, the problem that conservatives recorded for many years.
Mr. Trump promised to accelerate the production of American artificial intelligence in order to compete with China for global leadership in the field of technology. On Thursday he signed Executive order Aimed at “removing barriers” for the development of AI in the United States.
META has long alarmed about its intentions to invest significant funds in data processing centers. The company suffered Restructuring fee of $ 4.3 billion. USA In 2023, after he decided to recall many of his future projects of data processing centers to prepare for artificial intelligence projects. He expanded his center of data processing center to dozens of places around the world, including Odens, Denmark and Huntsville, Alabama.
Mr. Tsuckerberg said that he plans to continue to spend the infrastructure in order to support what, in his opinion, will become the future of computers working on the Chata Bottom of AI and other programs.
It also includes Llama, Meta's Open-Source Ai Technology, which can be freely loaded with independent software developers to nutrition of their own artificial intelligence applications.
Last year, Meta announced that she would build its latest reverse data center in the Richland District, LA. .
“Let's go build!” He wrote on his Facebook page and added emoji bending muscle.
