Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced an investment of $60-$65 billion in the development of the company's artificial intelligence. Zuckerberg announced this on his Facebook page.

"In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts," Zuckerberg wrote.

According to the CEO, the company is building a data center with a capacity of more than 2 GW. And it will be so big that it would have taken up a significant part of Manhattan. Meta plans to bring about 1 GW of computing power online this year, and by the end of it will have 1.3 million graphics processors.

Richland Parish data center projection over ManhattanImage from Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page

"We're planning to invest $60-65B in capex this year while also growing our AI teams significantly, and we have the capital to continue investing in the years ahead," the post states.

The announcement comes on the heels of another piece of news: Microsoft and OpenAI are working on a $100 billion data center project. That's 100 times more expensive than the ones they have now. The tech companies plan to build such a center, which will include an AI supercomputer called Stargate. It's scheduled to be up and running in 2028.

Llama is a large, open-source language model that powers Meta's AI on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Llama 3 is currently live, but in December, Meta announced the release of Llama 4 in 2025.