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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space.
In a Facebook post Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on CapEx in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing the company's AI development teams. That projected range is around double the $35 billion-$40 billion Meta spent on CapEx last year.
Zuckerberg also wrote that Meta plans to bring around one gigawatt of compute online this year, roughly the amount of power consumed by 750,000 average homes, and expects the company's data centers to pack over 1.3 million GPUs by year-end.
Meta's investments come as AI rivals pour billions into their own infrastructure projects. Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in 2025, while OpenAI is contributing to a joint venture, Stargate, that could yield it hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of data center resources.
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-will-have-1-3m-gpus-for-ai-by-year-end/