Meta CEO plans to invest $100’s of billions on AI, bring first 1GW-plus supercluster online

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence infrastructure, as it remains on track to bring the world’s first 1 gigawatt-plus supercluster online next year.

“For our superintelligence effort, I’m focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry,” Zuckerberg said on Monday in a post on Threads. “We’re also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.”

Part of this buildout includes the construction of massive data centers, including one dubbed Prometheus. It is expected to come online in 2026 and be the first supercluster to break 1 GW. It is powered by 500,000 Nvidia (NVDA) GB200/300 GPUs, according to data by SemiAnalysis.

“We’re actually building several multi-GW clusters,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re calling the first one Prometheus, and it’s coming online in ’26. We’re also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We’re building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.”

Meta edged up 1% by noon trading on Monday.

“Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher,” Zuckerberg added.

Meta is also stockpiling talent. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Apple’s (AAPL) head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to join Meta. It marked the latest high-profile AI hire by Zuckerberg, who is building out the company’s new AI superintelligence division. Meta has also reportedly hired several of OpenAI’s researchers over the past month.

This followed Meta’s $14.3B investment in Scale AI, which involved Scale CEO Alexandr Wang joining Meta to head its superintelligence team, which is focused on artificial general intelligence. AGI refers to an AI system with human-level intelligence across a range of fields.