Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta Platforms plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in building several enormous AI data centres. It is aimed at developing superintelligence, furthering his pursuit of a technology he has been competing for with a recruitment drive for top talent.
“We’re building several multi-GW clusters. We’re calling the first one Prometheus, and it’s [scheduled to come online] in 2026. We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW (fifth-generation warfare) over several years,” Zuckerberg wrote on his Threads account.
“We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan,” he added.
The social media powerhouse is among significant tech firms that have entered into prominent agreements and offered multi-million-dollar compensation packages in recent months to accelerate the development of machines capable of surpassing human intelligence in various tasks.
He also referred to a report from the industry publication SemiAnalysis indicating that Meta is set to become the first AI lab to launch a supercluster exceeding a gigawatt.
Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs team comprises researchers from top AI companies, including OpenAI and DeepMind. They recently appointed Alexandr Wang, co-founder of Scale AI, as chief AI officer by acquiring a 49% stake in his firm, valued at $14.3 billion.
Zuckerberg also brought in GitHub’s Nat Friedman, startup founder Daniel Gross, and Ruoming Pang from Apple, who reportedly received over $200 million to join the company, according to Reuters.
Zuckerberg highlighted the strength of the company’s core advertising sector to support the significant spending, addressing investor worries about whether the investment would yield returns.
“We have the capital from our business to do this,” he said. Meta’s stock was up 1%, and it has seen an increase of over 20% this year.
The company, which brought in nearly $165 billion in revenue last year, reorganised its AI initiatives last month under a new division called Superintelligence Labs, following challenges with its open-source Llama 4 model and notable employee departures.
