Mark Zuckerberg wants to build AI calculation centers the size of Manhattan

Data centers that could fill out the core part of Manhattan-with this vision, the Facebook group Meta wants to take the lead with artificial intelligence. For this, “hundreds of billions dollars” will be invested, meta boss Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the online platform threads. For this year, META has previously invested investments of more than $ 70 billion.

A first new facility named Prometheus should go online in 2026. Another name Hyperion will consume up to 5 gigawatts of energy in the last stage of expansion in a few years. With the energy required for this, experts’ estimates could supply more than four million average US budgets with electricity for one year.

According to media reports, Zuckerberg is dissatisfied with the pace with which Meta encourages the development of powerful artificial intelligence. In the past few weeks, the group spent a lot of money to attract top experts in the industry. Among them is a senior AI developer from Apple, which Meta, according to the Bloomberg financial service, attracted a 200 million dollar remuneration package. In addition, Zuckerberg, as AI boss, committed 28-year-old Alexandr Wang-a co-founder of the Scale Ai company, in which Meta also started with a share of $ 14.3 billion.

In artificial intelligence, Meta wants to compete with the Chatgpt developer Openai, among other things. But Elon Musk’s Ki company Xai also wants to spend many billions of dollars for data centers. At XAI, the AI Chatbot GROK is developed, which recently caused an eclat with anti-Semitic statements. After the violent criticism, Xai attributed this to an unsuccessful update and apologized.

According to the “New York Times”, Meta is considering saying goodbye to the previously open source approach in its most powerful AI model with the name Behemoth, in which the software code behind it is disclosed. That would be a U-turn, because previously insisted meta that source-open AI programs would ultimately prevail against the competition.