Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network Threads two weeks ago to announce Meta Compute, a new “top-level initiative” led by the company’s most senior executives. In doing so, he reemphasized Meta’s commitment to being an AI infrastructure behemoth—and signaled that Meta has no intention of being an also-ran in the data center build-out race.
The new organization is designed to secure the massive amounts of computing power—measured in gigawatts, each of which could power hundreds of thousands of homes—needed for Meta’s drive to build AI models that lead to “superintelligence.”
