Meta CEO Zuckerberg doesn’t want to depend on Big Tech and is building his own AI machine
Meta Platforms is launching a large-scale initiative aimed at building a machine for artificial intelligence (AI). This project, called Meta Compute, aims to build up significant computing power over the coming years.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the ambition to “build tens of gigawatts in this decade and ultimately hundreds of gigawatts or more”, underlining the company’s ambition to become a leader in AI development.
The initiative will be led by Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross. Janardhan, a former Google director who is currently head of global infrastructure and co-head of engineering at Meta, will continue to oversee key technical aspects. Gross, who joined Meta from Safe Superintelligence last year, will lead a new group focused on long-term capacity strategy, supplier partnerships and business modelling.
Both leaders will work closely with Dina Powell McCormick. She was recently appointed as Meta president and vice-chair of the Board of Directors, and is responsible for working with governments and sovereign states to build and finance Meta’s infrastructure.
This move comes as Meta plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028, including advanced AI data centres. The creation of Meta Compute points to a more direct involvement by Zuckerberg in steering the company’s next phase of growth through AI infrastructure.
Moreover, this initiative may help Meta deal with the increasing scrutiny of data centre expansion. Concerns over water consumption, electricity prices and the impact on local communities have made such projects controversial. Zuckerberg expressed his enthusiasm about working with the team to scale up Meta Compute and ultimately deliver personalised superintelligence to billions of people worldwide.
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