Invest 270 billion and increase the computing power to 5GW! Meta accelerates data center expansion

Compiled by Zhidongzhi | Edited by Eggplant | Cheng Qian Zhidongzhi reported on July 14 that yesterday, Meta announced that it would add an additional US$40 billion (approximately RMB 271.1 billion) to its large-scale data center park in Louisiana, USA, and plans to increase the computing power capacity to at least 5 gigawatts (GW). According to Meta’s official news, after this addition, Meta’s investment in the data center will exceed US$50 billion (approximately RMB 338.9 billion). In December 2024, Meta has announced an investment of US$10 billion (approximately RMB 67.8 billion) to build the data center and surrounding communities. ▲Meta’s investment in data centers in Louisiana, USA, currently totals more than US$50 billion (pictured above), with an initial investment of US$10 billion (pictured below) (picture source; Meta). According to Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter on May 19, Meta plans to invest an additional US$200 billion (approximately RMB 1.36 trillion) in the project. This fund will mainly be used to purchase expensive computing chips deployed in the nearly 4,000-acre campus. If costs such as chip procurement are included, the total investment scale of the data center project is expected to reach at least US$250 billion (approximately RMB 1.7 trillion). But at present, Meta has not publicly disclosed other project expenditures other than US$50 billion (approximately RMB 338.9 billion). 1. Meta has built a super-large-scale AI data center and has invested more than US$50 billion so far. In the past few years, Meta has continued to expand its investment in AI infrastructure. Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has emphasized many times that future AI competition will not only depend on model capabilities, but also require a large amount of computing resources to support it. Therefore, Meta is accelerating the construction of data centers to provide infrastructure support for AI model training, inference, and future super-intelligent systems. The data center located in Richland Parish, Louisiana, USA, is one of Meta's largest and most expensive data center projects. ▲Meta is located in Louisiana, USA