"Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build "tens of gigawatts" of capacity this decade and "hundreds of gigawatts or more" over time. "How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. The move signals that Zuckerberg views AI infrastructure as a key competitive advantage and is placing it under a dedicated unit that reports directly to him."
"The Department of Energy provides a few handy comparisons for the amount of power in one gigawatt: It's roughly half the output of the Hoover Dam, or the power of 2,627 Tesla Model 3s. Famously, the DeLorean, the iconic time machine in "Back To The Future Part II," needed 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 Meta Compute initiative."
Meta is launching a top-level initiative called Meta Compute to expand data centers and infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The company plans to build tens of gigawatts of capacity this decade and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time. The initiative will be positioned as a strategic advantage through engineering, investment, and partnerships and will report directly to the CEO. Meta plans to invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs, including AI data centers, by 2028. Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross will lead Meta Compute, and Dina Powell McCormick will focus on partnering with governments and sovereign entities to build and finance infrastructure.
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