Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the company is launching a new “top-level” effort called Meta Compute to funnel more money into data centers and infrastructure that will power its AI push.
Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build “tens of gigawatts” of capacity over the next decade and “hundreds of gigawatts or more” in the long term.
“How we design, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will be a strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
The move suggests that Zuckerberg sees AI infrastructure as a key competitive advantage and is putting it under the umbrella of a dedicated department that will report directly to him. Mehta said it plans to invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs by 2028, including AI data centers.
The Department of Energy provides some useful comparisons for 1 gigawatt of electricity. That's roughly half the output of the Hoover Dam, or the power of a 2,627 Tesla Model 3. Famously, the DeLorean, the iconic time machine from Back to the Future Part II, required 1.21 gigawatts to travel through time.
Santosh Janardhan, the company's head of infrastructure, and Daniel Gross, who joined Meta last year from AI startup Safe Superintelligence, will lead the new Metacomputing initiative.
Both executives will work closely with Dina Powell McCormick, Meta's newly appointed president and vice chairwoman, and will focus on partnering with governments and sovereign entities to help build infrastructure and raise capital. Powell McCormick is President Donald Trump's former vice national security adviser and spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs.
Meta did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
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